Hampshire mum Emma Simmonds set to battle it out for Miss Pole Dance UK 2016:
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Emma and her team perform every month. Since starting in November 2004, here are some of the events Pole Performers have featured in:

• Pole Performers feature on BBC one inside out teaching presenter John Cuthill
• Pole Performers Dance School now have their own premises in Southampton
• Emma recently appeared on Channel 4's "Come Dine with Me" for a Pole Dance Burlesque Solo Performance 2011
• Emma was asked to appear on "Britain's Got Talent" as a Pole Dance Backing Dancer for one of the Finalist Acts 2011
• Emma Simmonds - Finalist at Miss Poledance, London
• Portsmouth GuildHall performance 2009 & 2010 Hybrid sympathy, UKBFF UK Body Building Federation
• Performance at Corn Exchange, Dorchester August 2009 UKBFF
• Emma has recently been a finalist at Miss Pole Dance Fitness, for performance please click here
• Pole Performances featured in Live it magazine in October 2008
• Local Newspapers throughout the UK
• BBC Radio Solent
• Trisha Goddard Show (Channel 5, May 2005)
• Health & Fitness (International. Magazine)
  June 2005
• Recently launched our own fitness DVD
  'Pole Dance for Fun'
• 'Pure Energy Roadshow' Nov 2005
• Appearing regularly on 6TV (Hampshire & Oxfordshire) with our own
  fitness programme
• Race For Life
• World Record Pole Dancing attempt achieved 2006
• Radio 1 Interview with JK and Joel
• 'Jumpin Jaks' Performance - see on youtube
• 'Let Me Entertain You' TV show June 2007
• Radio Juice FM 2008
• Get Scene Magazine Hampshire 2008
  + much more!

All performances and features can be found on facebook and youtube

Pole Performers donate gift vouchers to charities, for example great Ormand street in London. We also can perform at charity events.

Pole Performers are sponsored by the PRINCE'S TRUST.

The Echo

A New dance craze is sweeping the south coast and women are flocking to sign up to its health benefits. For the women of Southampton pole dancing is now the new aerobics! Forget the raunchy, risqué image of old, pole dancing this specialised class is the perfect way to tone up those upper arm 'wings', firm up those abs - and have a real laugh into the bargain!

From celebrities like Kate Moss, Sadie Frost and Zoe Ball to Daryl Hannah and Heather Graham, to regular house wives and businesswomen - everyone's pledging their allegiance to the pole.

"No matter what your shape or size pole dancing lessons are an easy way to improve fitness and get results without hundreds of people glaring at you while you're working out, like at the gym," says Emma, herself a professional dancer and qualified instructor from Southampton.

"As with any workout, you are taken through a gentle warm-up before we tackle the poles, we do a series of stretches and warm up our, then our pupils take to the floor to practice some effective dance moves before hitting the pole and working those muscles".