A pole-dancing Queen of the Night
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Ok so I will be the first one to say it, with an exasperated sigh of course. This is not pole dancing. This is a form of acrobatic art that has been around for quite some time and has no sexual history or connotations associated with it whatsoever. I don’t know why I keep coming back to this website.
Then, don’t
It’s pathetic that you don’t realize truly how much of a loser you are Norman
BTW: Nobody mentioned sexual connotations. Even in that position you’re unlikely to meet the man of your dreams at that altitude.
Completely agree. Pole dancing is greasy and sleazy. (They tell themselves it’s about acrobatics, though!) What this woman is doing is not, and it’s building core strength.
At last Boris Johnson finds something to watch at the opera 😉
This isn’t pole dancing. She sings Queen of the Night in Berlin, Houston, Köln, Wiesbaden and lots of other places. Why not mention that?
What if she did it in Warsaw?
If it is LGBT pole-dancing, then it must be ok?
That’s not pole dancing (as indicated by the absence of a pole). It’s aerial silks.
Not wishing to be a pedant, but this is not pole dancing – this Queen of the Night is an aerialist . . .
There is no pole involved here, so technically this is not pole-dancing. Please update the offensive title as soon as we figure out the correct term for what this aerial acrobatics is really called.
Secondly, why Norman have you posted a link to a YouTube video from a channel that has merely copied the video from the artists’s original channel? Surely there must be some copyright infringement here. At least it would be polite to support the artist by clicking on the original video on her channel:
https://youtu.be/hOvQ6GlH3Vk
That isn’t pole dancing, it’s aerial silks, which requires some serious athleticism. This is really pretty impressive.
True, though pole artists are equally extremely athletic and most aerialists are familiar with pole dance as well since the technique and poses are very similar. But there is no doubt that there are zero poles in this impressive aerial silks act. For an article that’s only one sentence long, you’d think they’d fact check it before publishing..
Quite. The one sentence manages to be both inaccurate and sneeringly sexist. Pole-dancing of any variety is a feat of enviable athleticism. I imagine that few aerialists will have the space at home to practise with the hanging props, and the pole’s a good alternative. Sure wish I could do it – though nobody would want to see it, either for artistic or other gratification!
Nine comments so far on a *checks notes* music website and nobody seems to have noticed the singing…
I agree, but the way she presents her material indicates that the voice is pretty far down the list of priorities, even if it is decent.
Probably nine viola players.
I noticed, wish I hadn’t.
The hottest thing I’ve seen since Yuja playing Rachmaninoff.
If what we hear is really her singing, then this multitasking feat is very impressive indeed, whatever it’s called.
This site calls her “A pole-dancing queen of the night,” but she is an aerialist and opera singer.
A “pole-dancer”? In a video with no pole? Even Freud would blush.
You, however, are a cliché older than aerialism. A sad, pervy old man, craving attention online and seeking sexuality in anything he cannot understand.
Spend less time fantasizing about opera singers as sex workers, and more time examining yourself, and maybe someday you won’t embarrass everyone with your ignorance.
Six comments to date point out that this is not pole-dancing. Let’s see if the author retracts, amends, or apologises. So far, his only reply suggests that’s unlikely. As does the thinly veiled misogyny scattered through a number of other recent posts (and elsewhere for years). Well, I guess we can’t expect the misogyny to be corrected, but factual errors, surely?
Uh, I always thought that Pole dancing was referred to as the Polka.
I showed this to a friend and he was like: Does she have to? Good question actually. Anyhow, you can hear where she’s getting into trouble vocally – because of or despite the gymnastics?
Disgusting. Poor Mozart, dragged through the mud yet again. This Krause woman must be utterly desperate for attention; too bad we’ve given her any here.
Cirque du Soleil: The Opera. Will it open in Las Vegas?