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- Max 2 per pole/hoop at all classes and courses offered at studios located in both Camden and London Bridge.
- Courses & Classes we teach: Beginners to Advanced, Contemporary Ballet Pole, Aerial Hoop, Pole Conditioning,
- Extreme Stretching & Contortion, Hoop, Pilates Classes, Practise, Private Lessons, Lyrical Pole, Hen Parties, Ballet,
- Boys Welcome at most classes (please enquire)
- Click here to find out How To Book Online (bookings not made in advance through our website will incur a £2 manual invoicing fee - and we cannot reserve a place or guarantee there is room for you in the class without payment on-line beforehand, so it's best not to just turn up or you might not get a spot!)
- You should wear Shorts or Hot Pants and a Vest Top for Pole, heels or barefeet optional!
- Please arrive no earlier than 15mins before your class as the venue will not be open prior to this
- Make sure you read the T&C and Health & Safety Regulations on checkout and before you to come to your first class
- If you are an instructor at another pole school please disclose this before booking & contact the office as a surcharge may be applied
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Beginner - (£110)
6 week course, 1.5 hrs per week - For absolute beginners and those that have tried it once or twice. Your course will introduce you to the art of pole dancing through building strength in your core and upper body, improving flexibility and posture, and bringing some sass and excitement to the way you move and hold yourself through exotic dance. You will learn some fun and very exciting tricks which are incorporated into a fabulous choreographed routine.
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Elementary - (£120)
6 week course, 1.5 hrs per week - For those who have completed the Beginner course or have done a little pole dancing in the past and want to improve their technique to gain that ‘dancers edge’ in their pole dancing. This course will develop your tricks and spins further, whilst increasing your strength training to a higher level accompanied by more complicated choreography to develop your co-ordination, with a routine learnt over the 6 weeks. You will begin to learn preparatory exercises to ready you for going upside down in the next level...
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Intermediate 1 - (£120)
6 week course, 1.5 hrs per week – You will have completed the Elementary course or equivalent and be able to competently climb the pole and perform a number of spins and pole tricks with ease. In this course your Pole Dancing journey gets very exciting as you will learn to go upside down (and for this reason you must have some solid training behind you already to ensure you are strong enough to safely attempt these tricks). A great routine combining spins and tricks with your newly found skill to hang upside down on a pole will be taught over the 6 week period, whilst also continuing to learn essential conditioning and weight bearing exercises to help you conquer these amazing tricks and to start defining your toned arms and 6 pack!
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Intermediate 2 - (£120)
6 week course, 1.5 hrs per week – You will have completed Intermediate 1 and be competent with going upside down. Now you are really getting into it – you will learn some exhilarating new tricks – building on all your training so far. At this level you are almost a pro so your routine will work on musicality and fluidity to really prove you are a dancer not just someone who performs tricks on a pole! Stretching and conditioning exercises in this course will focus on improving the lines and shapes your body makes – as this is a visual art after all.
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Advanced 1 - (£145)
6 week course, 2 hrs per week (or intensive course one per pole, 1.5hrs per week) – You have completed all your base training and want to start learning some really hard core tricks on the pole… Parts of Justine’s own show routines will be passed onto you in this course so you can experience the stamina, strength and combinations of tricks required in real shows!
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Advanced 2 - (£145)
6 week course, 2 hrs per week – With Advanced 1 now firmly under your belt, you have the skills and strength to attempt this course. You will train extreme tricks and combinations of the highest technical standard.
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Professional Class - (£30 single sessions, £150 course - by invitation only - please apply first)
2hr weekly workshop with JUSTINE and other Professionals.
For Professionals and the most advanced students wanting to workshop the hardest and newest moves around. This class can be attended by graduates of Ecole de Pole ADV 2 syllabus or professionals by invitation. Taught by Justine or other Guest World renowned polers such as Saulo Sarmiento, Michelle Stanek or Lucy Cork! Please apply to
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Poled Up! - (£23 single class)
Strength training/workout class to condition and strengthen your body for pole! involving a series of cardio pumping combinations and muscle burning exercises – all performed on the pole – designed for those that want to experience a gym workout but make it fun, whilst developing their muscles specifically for pole tricks. No routine is taught, however you will come out of each session sweating! (Boys Welcome)
Suitable for students from levels Elementary to Advanced.
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Spinning Pole Classes - (from £22 single classes)
Learn how to adapt your tricks to a spinning pole, learn to strut your stuff with hair flicks, body rolls and sexy exotic floorwork and dance moves. ALL TAUGHT ON A SPINNING POLE
Suitable for students from levels Elementary to Advanced - see Contemporary pole, Booty Shaking & Pole Choreo classes.
(NOT SUITABLE FOR ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS)
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Boys Classes
Only real Men Can Pole Dance!
Boys can come along to any of our Pracitse, Stretch/Contortion, Pole Conditioning classes, and the Boot Camp Pole Course (just not our Beginner, Elementary or Intermediate 1 courses, those are for the girls only).
For a solely male course of any level - get together 4 of you and we will run one tailored to your fitness and strength as you wish, at a time convenient for you. It's not easy boys so beware - bring your balls with you!
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Aerial Hoop - (£75 for the 4 wk course or £20 single classes)
4 week Circus Aerial Hoop Course (also known Lyra, Aerial ring or Cerceau) with Jo Foley and Lucky de Souza, renowned hoop and circus skills performers and instructors worldwide. Beginner and Inter/Advanced Courses available
Mixed ability Single Classes available on a Sat open class.
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Private Lessons – (with Justine: 1hr - £75, other Ecole Instructors: 1 hr - £70 for 2 or more sharing please see details in link)
One to one coaching tailored to your own specific needs and goals with you and Justine (or any one of our qualified, professional Instructors) for a whole hour on your own! (shared privates also available see link for further info).
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Extreme Stretching & Contortion - (£9/ £14)
Extreme Stretching with Justine: Want to make your tricks look exquisite by having a full or oversplit, box splits and bendy back?! This class is for you. By using proven methods to develop and lengthen your muscles in a controlled and safe way, improve your range of motion and flexibility to your full potential. Justine uses her experience from training as a professional ballerina combined with contortion techniques from Pixie Le Knot our resident contortionist trainer & performer!
Contortion & Acro with Jennifer Keith (Pixie Le Knot): Pixie Le Knot is one of the most flexible, highly skilled contortionists in the UK. She can perform the most extreme & amazing backbends which very few other British contortionists are able to achieve. She currently performs her contortion act all over the UK, internationally and has toured with a traditional big top circus. She has extensive experience in teaching dance and acrobatics and is excited and passionate about creating this unique class devoted to the art of contortion exclusively for Ecole de Pole. Contortion training in the UK is extremely rare and hard to come by and this class will be one of a kind.
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Practise & Pole Play - (1.5 hrs - £15/ £22)
"Practise" makes perfect! So practise practise practise! Time for you to work on those tricks you learn in class that are proving difficult and to give you more specific coaching by Justine who will assist and correct to help you with tricks you’re stuck on.
"Pole Play" is an opportunity for more advanced polers to bring their wishlists of moves they've seen somewhere - off Youtube, comps - on facebook - and workshop them with Justine to nail them! The session finishes off with a nice big stretch out and a small portion of contortion stretches.
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Guest Workshops - (2-4hrs)
from Burlesque to Latin, Belly Dance to Ballet, Hoola hoop and Aerial skills, or one off Spinning Pole lessons, Ecole de Pole invites regular leading performers from the industry to give you the chance to experience many different styles of dance, movement and show experiences!
- Our Guests: Marlo Fisken, Saulo Sarmiento, Natasha Wang, Karol Helms, Alethea Austin, Michelle Shimmy, Michelle Stanek, Anastasia Sukhrotova, Evgeny Greshilov, Hanka Venselaar, Suzie Q & Toby J
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Pilates - (from £10)
Pilates with Jaime Rangeley one of our Pole Dance Instructors - whose day job is as a highly qualified Pilates and Yoga Instructor! Pilates is a system of exercise developed to build concentration, control, centre (core), flow, precision, and breathing. There will be a special emphasis on those low abdominals to help you lift your bum over your head with grace and ease! Pilates will strengthen and lengthen the muscles, helping you to see faster progress in your other classes.
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Adult & Kids Ballet- (from £5-10)
Adult Ballet with Karen (RAD qualified instructor), Trevor (ex English National Ballet principal dancer) or Justine (trained professionally at the Hamburg Ballet School), this class will give you a great introduction to ballet: working on your posture and poise, flexibility & leg strength, grace and musicality by learning ballet from the basics up. Includes Barre, centre work, jumps, piroutettes and adage. PRIVATE LESSONS IN BALLET AND SMALL PRIVATE GROUP SESSIONS AVAILABLE ON REQUEST.
Kids Ballet and Free Movement taught by Karen in Chelsea/ Earls Court - please see Ecole de Ballet for term dates for your child.
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Taster Classes/ Trial Sessions - (45mins - £8)
Not sure Pole Dancing is for you? Come try out a mini class...
See what all the fuss is about, enjoy a short introductory session to the art of pole dancing... before committing to a whole course. We're positive you will love it so much you'll want to come back for more!!
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Special Services
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Performance coaching
Full Music/Choreography/costume design package available for competition and show work - £350.
Includes 3 lessons to learn the routine, choreography, video of routine, music on CD, plus designs for costumes.
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Hen Parties - (Pole Dancing or Burlesque: min £150 large groups 2hrs or small groups £115 for 1.5hrs )
Choose from one of our Hen Party themed classes at venues including Earls Court, London Bridge & Chelsea:
Pole Dancing: 2 hr class, including a full fun warm up, pole tricks, spins and a sexy routine, cool down and a real show from your professional instructor! You are welcome to bring snacks & drinks, and your instructor will take photos and videos for a keepsake of your Hen strutting her stuff around the pole!
Burlesque: 2 hrs, includes a warm up, a sassy chair dance, booty shaking vintage Burlesque routine, removal of gloves, removal of hold ups... maybe more, and not to mention the chance to learn a feather fan dance like a real Burlesque Starlet. Your instructor will perform a professional show at the end for your entertainment.
£20pp (min £150, 2hrs). or £15pp (min £115, 1.5hrs)
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Pole Jam/School Party - (£9)
A chance to jam around on the poles, see what others are doing and meet fellow addicted polers! Be treated to some fantastic shows by our students and instructors and of course a show from Justine herself! Ecole de Pole supports a charity at each of their Jams - in Dec 2011 we raised £185.50 in aid of UNICEF!
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Events & Booking Agency & Performer Management: "LA PLUME NOIRE"
Book Justine or from our in house Acrobatic & Artistic Pole & Dance Performance Company, for doubles and singles acts.
Have us perform at your event or teach workshops in your studio in the UK or Internationally: pole dancing, aerial hoop, contortion, lyrical or contemporary pole, dance & choreography, silks and trapeze, hand balancing and more (see us action – video gallery).
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Buy your own pole – X-poles starting from £149.99
45/50mm, Chrome or Titanium, Static or Static/Spinning & X-Stages – contact
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direct to purchase your own dance pole and have delivered direct to your home.
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