Back in June, Colombian women took to the streets to promote their new found joy of pole dancing, and their countrymen put down their rifles and giant bags of drugs and started waving dollar bills ...

After years of being dismissed as "bedroom gymnasts" better suited to seduction than sport, a group of women dancers are promoting what many consider a seedy entertainment as a potential Olympic ...

Women over 70 don't just excel at knitting, belote, and baking buttered cakes. Mary Caryl Giltner Serritella, on the other hand, doesn't become one with the leather sofa, but with a metal pole. This ...

Pole dancing has always been an art form to those who practice it. It’s a physical feat, a spiritual ritual, a display of athleticism. In India, Mallakhamb — which translates to "wrestler's pole" — ...

Virginia Marshall can do anything except pick herself up from the floor. At least, that’s what she declares one morning in June after completing a dizzying, gravity-defying four-minute routine. The ...