My championship-winning pole piece
In 2017, I won Aotearoa/New Zealand’s most prestigious pole dance competition for the second year in a row with a piece I named, EMANCIPATE.
This piece was about my sexual liberation.
It was a vessel to understand & alchemise the layers of personal + trans-generational trauma, shame, fear & disempowerment that had been wrapped tightly around my sexual self.
Art has always been a tool for me to make sense of complex experiences.
To feel + be witnessed without the limitations of words
Whilst creating this piece in the studio, I broke down in tears numerous times - transmuting pain into power, shame into pleasure, contraction into expression.
It was a blessing to have three of my closest sparkle friends BTS & on stage holding that big transmission with me.
Because healing happens in relationships.
I hope you might feel the power of sexual liberation, as you watch my piece.