Director of Pole Performers
Emma Simmonds

Emma Simmonds is a professional dancer who trained in the disciplines of Ballet, Modern, Tap, Acrobatics and Gymnastics since the tender age of four. In 2004, after gaining her many dance related qualifications and working in the industry fulfilling many varied dance and choreograph contracts around the world, Emma decided to follow her love of teaching and passing on her skills to open up Pole Performers Dance School. The school has since gone from strength to strength with a dance school at Southampton's exclusive Basepoint Centre and with classes throughout the south coast with renowned brands like Fitness First, David Lloyd and L.A. Fitness. This success has led Emma to take on and train eight other teachers with the same passion as Emma, to help cope with the demand for Emma Simmonds patient and fun style of teaching and exercise.

Emma is a self pole dance instructor with 8 years experience and puts her heart and sole into teaching and is dedicated to pole dance fitness.

Pole Performers was the first professional dance school on the south coast to offer the health benefits of pole dancing as a form of aerobic exercise. The classes are a fun way to firm up abs, bums, tums and tone all muscle groups including upper arm 'wings. The classes are very inclusive anyone from the age of 16-60 has so far been taught by Pole Performers where size and shape are no restriction all we ask is you bring your enthusiasm and above all be ready to have a good time.

On the left are pictures from Robert Dunning from Solent Studios.

Below are pictures from Emma's Pole Photoshoot with Photographer Paul Bradley - Southampton Dance Studio 2017.