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, I wasn’t scared,” the woman tells those gathered in a circle. “Now I’m a little scared.” In her welcoming remarks, S Factor founder Sheila Kelley promised that might happen. Whether Amber, the pert, fit newbie, will stick with the L.A. studio’s six-month course remains to be seen.
She’s right, though. The class at the heart of “Strip Down, Rise Up,” upends expectations. So does director-producer Michèle Ohayon’s cinema verité movie. Debuting on Netflix, the doc is poignant, surprising and deftly reawakens questions about “patriarchy” — not by being a pole-dancing polemic but by foregrounding its characters’ experiences.
The strip club and its pole have become a de rigueur gesture in U.
She’s right, though. The class at the heart of “Strip Down, Rise Up,” upends expectations. So does director-producer Michèle Ohayon’s cinema verité movie. Debuting on Netflix, the doc is poignant, surprising and deftly reawakens questions about “patriarchy” — not by being a pole-dancing polemic but by foregrounding its characters’ experiences.
The strip club and its pole have become a de rigueur gesture in U.
- 2/4/2021
- by Lisa Kennedy
- Variety Film + TV
The new original documentary feature "Strip Down, Rise Up", directed by Michèle Ohayon, features Sheila Kelley, Amy Bond, Jenyne Butterfly, Patricia Buck and Evelyn Oshita as "...women who come together to heal through sensual movement, specifically pole dance", with music from Coldplay, streaming February 5, 2021 on Netflix:
"...the vérité-style film follows a diverse group of women of all ages, ethnic backgrounds and body types, who reclaim themselves through pole dance either as a sport, an art, or as a way of unlocking their body in order to heal from trauma, release shame and restore self acceptance.
"Shot by an all-female crew with rare access, 'Strip Down Rise Up", offers an emotionally gratifying, visually astounding and unexpected look at the fascinating behind-the-scenes world of pole artistry and expression..."
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"...the vérité-style film follows a diverse group of women of all ages, ethnic backgrounds and body types, who reclaim themselves through pole dance either as a sport, an art, or as a way of unlocking their body in order to heal from trauma, release shame and restore self acceptance.
"Shot by an all-female crew with rare access, 'Strip Down Rise Up", offers an emotionally gratifying, visually astounding and unexpected look at the fascinating behind-the-scenes world of pole artistry and expression..."
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- 1/19/2021
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
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