Jamilla will be featuring at the 2015 Pole For A Purpose at the Straz Center in Tampa, Florida, on August 15th. She will also be offering three special workshops on August 16th at Impulse Pole Dance. See the Event Page for more information and how to book for this and her workshops!
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Home!
After a month and a half of touring the world, I’m home! I’ve had the honor of meeting amazing pole studio owners, instructors and students from studios in Australia, New Zealand, Spain, France, Switzerland, Germany, Poland, Denmark, and Norway. I’m blessed to be able to have the traveling adventures that I do! With thanks to everyone who welcomed me so warmly and to my management, Poles On Tour, who take care of everything I can’t keep a handle on when I’m flying every other day.
While I’m home I will be teaching at Shine Fitness, and over the coming months I will also be touring the US, including feature performances at Ink’n’Iron Nashville, a return to Femme Fatale, OH, a first visit to Enchant Vertical Dance, WA, and a Crossfit/ Pole mix up at Steel Monkey, MS! In late August I will be setting off again, this time for Central and South America. For more details, see my online schedule. To book me for your studio or event, please contact my manager Kristy at Poles On Tour.
Whilst in Las Vegas, I am offering Online Skype Lessons. These are one on one classes in strength & conditioning, pole training, and flexibility, for students of all levels. For more details, contact me here!
Extend Yourself: Professional Pole Training
“Your playing small doesn’t serve the world” ~ Marianne Williamson
The pole world has grown in ten short years from a tiny, niche group to a global community complete with studios in every major city, online magazines, apparel producers, thriving brands and international championships. Our industry was built on a performance art that many now also call a sport. Yet for all the focus on performance, the art of presence and the way a performer connects with the audience seem mostly to be drowned out in favour of the level of difficulty of tricks.
There is so much more to performing than how many times you can flip your fonji or how flat your Jade split is. Strength, control, stamina, flexibility, and general quality of movement are very much part of a great show, but what use are big tricks if you are hiding, playing small, unable to connect with what you are doing, let alone the audience sitting in front of you?
What is this art of performing, of connecting, of being present in everything you do on stage? This is what I’m here to help you to bring life to. Train your body as an athlete and train your performance as an artist. Be the brightest, most magnificent version of yourself, for all the world to see. Extend Yourself!
For more, see the Extend Yourself page. There are only four places available in my two-day intensive, coming up May 5 & 6 at Studio Exclusive in Chatswood, Sydney, Australia. Contact me here to apply. I’m excited to receive your application & even more to dance with you!
A Week In the Life of a Pole Dancer and Crossfit Athlete, Part Two
One thing I’ve learned in my time as a professional pole artist is that as creative as we are, we are also athletes. And being a successful athlete is as much about how you feed, mobilize and rest your body as it is about your tricks and achievements on stage and in the studio. There is no health, no longevity, without balance. I mix up my pole training with Crossfit and Strength classes at CrossFit Max Effort here in Las Vegas, along with as many flexibility classes as I can manage at Shine Fitness and Pole Fitness Studio. Pole and Crossfit BOTH require a level of commitment to achieve and maintain a high level of performance. The last year or so has been all about finding the balance of both, plus mobility, plus nutrition, plus rest. I can honestly say that what I have put myself through is only enriching what I have to offer as an instructor (I can’t wait to get back on the road again!). Here is a taste of my last week, which brought its challenges as well as its victories. But no matter what, each new day is a chance to take on the world yet again, and each evening is a chance to reflect on how damn lucky I am to be living here, surrounded by so much talent and passion, living my dream.
I am available for specialty workshops at your studio! For all tour bookings, please contact my manager Kristy at Poles on Tour.
Happy New Year!
Where were you when the clock struck twelve? This time around I saw in the New Year doing what I love: performing on pole at an event in the Bellagio’s Grand Ballroom, right in the midst of the Las Vegas Strip. A dream come true!
With gratitude for the awareness and adventures that 2014 brought, I am welcoming 2015 with open arms. I am both more settled in my new home of Las Vegas, and also excited for my next tour stops; having the opportunity to travel so much makes me appreciate home all the more. This year I will continue touring throughout the US, Australia and Europe, commence teacher trainings, perform at Ink’n’Iron in LA and Nashville, and I will also be teaching and performing at Pole Expo here in Vegas, in September. Lots more is yet to be announced, and you can see all my confirmed adventures on my Events Page, or check out my workshop menu and contact Kristy at Poles On Tour to book me for your studio or event.
Jamilla Deville, as shot by Christopher Donald Photography
Finally, a thought or two for the ending of one year and the beginning of another:
“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new” ~ Socrates
“Bring it on!” ~ Jamilla