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Sydney's original star of pole dancing |
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The Pole Dancing industry and classes for women everywhere have only become generally popular in the last few years. But before that pole dancing was found in clubs, and the reason that the teachers you have today have their skills is because of those dancers, in the clubs, who perfected their art and passed it on.
Lucy Angelino was Sydney's (if not Australia's) original star of pole dancing.
Lucy was the first dancer in Sydney to focus her performance work strongly on pole dancing and she taught a multitude of Sydney showgirls during her time.
If you want to know where it all began in Sydney then you should know some more about Lucy!
Adelaide, 1990: Lucy was dancing at a restaurant called Cobbs. Cobbs had a front bar with a pole, and Lucy and another girl called Jody worked there, dancing twenty minutes on and twenty minutes offstage for five hours at a time – hugely demanding, even for the fittest of dancers. It was here, with Jody who was an accomplished gymnast, that Lucy developed much of her pole technique.
In the same year, Lucy entered the first ever Miss Nude Australia pageant and won Miss Nude South Australia.
She later moved to Melbourne to start working at the Mens Gallery, and continued to perform her far-advanced pole work there.
In 1995 Lucy moved to Sydney and started working at Dancers Cabaret, which had just opened. Lucy was the girl who brought the knowledge and skill of pole dancing to Dancers Cabaret (which was later to branch out into the Mens Gallery clubs of Sydney) and soon they asked her to represent them in Miss Nude NSW – which she did, and won runner up. The finals were held in Adelaide and she was able to use her pole skills on their stage, since the Crazy Horse stage boasted two poles at that time (there are now six!). At the time pole dancing was not so popular, even amongst showgirls, so Lucy had the upper hand by far in that respect. She won Miss Nude Australia and was sent to the US to compete – where once again her original and spectacular pole dance skills made her stand out from the crowd. Here she won Miss Nude Blonde World.
Lucy came back to Sydney and continued working for the Mens Gallery clubs. They employed her also as an instructor for the dancers and thus her amazing pole moves were passed on and continue to be performed to this day! Lucy is very much a fundamental part of pole dancing, not only in Sydney but in all of Australia, as her work has inspired many to pursue pole dancing as an art form in itself.
Lucy was at the Launch on September 21.