In “Strip Down, Rise Up,” an attendee of S Factor’s beginning pole dance course admits to her fellow students that the class is nothing like what she thought it would be. “When I showed up ...

For Americans, pole dancing had long been relegated to strip clubs, but a newer, artistic wave of the discipline (such as Chinese pole, performed mostly by men, which, I guess, makes it not dirty ...

We challenged a group of accomplished pole dancers to keep up with trained rock climbers for a day on an indoor climbing wall. Though both disciplines call for intense focus and muscle control ...

Netflix released the first trailer for Strip Down, Rise Up, a new documentary about a group of women learning to heal through the art of pole dancing. Strip Down, Rise Up premieres on Netflix ...

Once upon a time, when men went out for a night of pole dancing, it was their eyes that got a workout. But in the past few years for some, it's been their entire bodies.

‘Strip Down, Rise Up’ Review: Pole Dancing Without Polemic A new documentary makes a poignant case for the empowering possibilities of the stripper’s go-to prop.