{"id":518,"date":"2023-09-22T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-22T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/robiky.com\/?p=518"},"modified":"2023-10-17T00:39:05","modified_gmt":"2023-10-17T00:39:05","slug":"the-rise-of-pole-dancing-in-egypt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/robiky.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/22\/the-rise-of-pole-dancing-in-egypt\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rise of Pole Dancing in Egypt"},"content":{"rendered":"
Malak Shoeira<\/a> went to her first pole dance class half-jokingly, after a friend\u2019s suggestion. At the time she was a ninth-grader in Egypt, and almost everything she knew of pole came from American TV. But that was in 2017, when pole dancing was relatively new to Egyptian gyms <\/ins>and dance studios. <\/ins><\/p>\n She ended up discovering a new passion. \u201cI had never really found myself in something, and pole was so different from anything I had done before,\u201d Shoeira says.<\/p>\n Today, Shoeira is an enthusiastic proponent of pole dancing as an art, a sport, and a means of self-expression. But not everyone in Shoeira\u2019s life has been happy about her dancing. Her dad, especially, needed convincing. \u201cWe\u2019d have fights,\u201d she says. \u201cBut eventually, especially as I had started coaching, he became more okay with it.\u201d<\/p>\n In many Western countries, pole dance classes achieved mainstream popularity years ago. Egypt\u2019s pole dancing culture has been slower to grow\u2014partly due to the country\u2019s conservative society, and partly because it can be perceived as a Western take on \u201cprovocative\u201d belly dancing, an art still facing its own stigmas<\/a>.<\/p>\n