Explore your strength and find a community at
Pole + Dance Studios
The Pole + Dance community consists of four studio spaces along the West Coast.
Our studios welcome students of all backgrounds, experience levels, and ages.
We emphasize respect, individuality, and play. We work hard to be body positive and sex positive.
Come experience a style of movement that encourages play, exploration, silliness, and sensual expression.
Our community is for everyone.
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I took Mae Mae's Heels Choreo class ... She broke everything down in a way that was super easy to understand and modified for all the different levels in the class. The studio is super clean and nice and the staff are friendly. Highly recommend!
- Olivia R, San Francisco
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I’ve never once touched a pole, but by the end of the class I felt like a pro! Very fun and a great way to get your body moving. Highly recommend.
- Rachel L, Oakland
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I love everything about this studio - after only taking classes on Zoom during the initial part of the pandemic, I’m so relieved and happy to have found an in person studio that feels like home.
Rachel P, Berkeley
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PDX P&D is truly amazing. I feel welcomed, not judged, and like anything is possible. I feel so strong and beautiful everytime I'm in class. I can't wait to continue my strength journey here.
Morgan B, Portland
Our Pricing
For the new student: $80 New Student Special
(works out to $26/class!)
For the pole-curious: Spin Intro Unlimited Membership
(works out to less than $12/class!)
For the regular: Ongoing Memberships
($30 or less per class if you take 3+ classes a week!)
$44/class - Class Packages + Drop-ins
(great for travelers, those with inconsistent schedules, and the commitment-phobic… no shade!)
Our class prices allow us to pay our highly trained instructors best-in-region rates (including sick pay), keep our studios gleaming, provide discounts and scholarships for needs-based students, and continue growing our community.
We believe in creating spaces that inspire you to move! You’ll always know what to expect from a Pole + Dance studio.
Our spaces are spotless, our equipment is well-maintained, and our smooth floors will make you want to roll around!
Our studios are light-filled, clean, and welcoming.
Our Classes
Pole Foundations: Our intro-level pole tricks class includes conditioning, inversion prep, pole climbing, and basic spins. This class emphasizes technique and building strength for more advanced tricks.
Pole L1.5: A bridge between Foundations and Pole L2. Students stay mostly upright, refining basic spins and grounded movement, while building toward aerial fundamentals like pole sits, jasmine, figurehead, and apprentice.
Pole L2: Develop strength and condition to start going upside down, exploring outside and inside leg hangs. You’ll also work with crucifix, teddy hold, side climbs, and jasmine. This class gets dancers comfortable being upside down, without their hands!
Pole L2.5: This class is designed as a bridge between the more challenging L2 skills and the inverted combinations of L3. This class centers aerial combos and spin pole work using skills like leg hangs, butterfly, and brass sit. Students will also work on fluidity, endurance, and control in all skills, to build confidence working up the pole.
Pole L3: This class introduces intermediate tricks like jade split, shoulder mount, and brass monkey. Each class includes a static pole combo and a spin pole combo. In L3, students begin to develop aerial flow and endurance.
Pole L4: Dancers start to work with handsprings, aerial shoulder mounts, dynamic combinations, and advanced spin pole flows. This class emphasizes complex combinations with challenging transitions, grips, and bendy shapes.
Pole L5: This is our pre-professional class for those working on advanced tricks and transitions. Strong emphasis will be placed on movement quality and expression in combinations.
Choreo + Heels Foundations: Our heels-optional, intro-level dance class. Master the basics with a deep dive on the most essential skills of grounded movement. Sample choreography in small bites, with plenty of time to savor each moment.
Beginner Choreography: You're craving more choreo and ready to work in some "wow" moments. Find your favorite instructor (every class has a unique vibe) and settle in for full routines in their signature style.
Intermediate Choreography: Now we're talking cardio! Start exploring fancy flourishes, more challenging tricks and even longer pieces. You'll play with musicality, and start developing your own style. Each instructor’s class will be different, with its own prerequisites.
Advanced Choreography: Gravity? Not in this house. You'll work with advanced grips, level changes, complex transitions and intricate heelwork to create the illusion of weightlessness in these advanced choreo classes. Each instructor’s class will be different, with its own prerequisites.
Pole Inversions Conditioning: In this class we will work on climbs, inverts and knee hangs while focusing on technique and building endurance through circuit training. This class is helpful for anyone who wants to build on their aerial basics.
Aerial Silks Foundations: This class is for those new to aerials. Each class begins with conditioning movement on the ground and working with the lower third of the silk, developing the core work, flexibility and strength needed to move safely up into the air. You’ll learn how to climb up the silks, wrap foot-locks and transition to positions and tricks in the air. You’ll also work on inversion prep.
Aerial Silks L2: This class is for students who are comfortable climbing to the top of the silks and putting on a basic footlock. Students will learn how to invert from standing and will learn a variety of wraps upside down including angel, catcher’s, and cross back straddle.
Aerial Silks L3: Begin working on inversions in the air, wraps in and out of egg-beaters, single star drop, saltos and hip keys. In each class, students will learn how to transition between tricks to develop aerial combos that students will dance together at the end of class.
Lyra L1: Build strength through conditioning drills on and off of the hoop, and learn beautiful, foundational shapes. You’ll practice mounting the hoop, 3-4 tricks, and transitions between the tricks to create fluid combos in the air.
Lyra L2: In this intermediate Lyra class, we will develop aerial strength, work on beats and dynamic movement, rolls and rotationals, and advanced shapes. You’ll also begin to explore drops, and transitions between the low and high bars.
Active Flexibility: Build and strengthen your muscles to safely support bendy lines and shapes. Each class focuses on either splits or backbends. This class is all levels but is not a restorative yoga flow - be prepared to sweat!
Specialty Classes: Our schedule is packed with specialty classes unique to the instructor’s style and skills! These include classes with a niche playlist, a sassy mood, a theme or a dress code. Check out our latest class schedule for all the fun specialty listings.
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