Cardiff Dance Studios We Love You

Happy Birthday, Pole Twisters!

This week has been very special for us, as we celebrated 10 years since Pole Twisters first opened our doors and we embarked on the journey of a lifetime! But now its time to close Cardiff Dance Studios. Our classes are still running but at a new venue.

We have posted the full story of how our business came about in a previous blog post, but we really wanted to celebrate this landmark by looking back at how the two of us managed to create our business and community from the ground up against all odds!

We remember seeing our first ever pole performance many years ago, way before it was recognised as a sport and whilst it was still very new as an art form. We simply knew we HAD to learn and knew one day we would both love to go into teaching. Nobody in Cardiff was teaching at the time but we were determined and so we had to learn from a DVD we ordered online! We were able to eventually start teaching our own classes, renting out several small dance studios around Cardiff but after a couple of years more and more classes started popping up and we knew we needed to expand and open our own studio in order to survive – so we took the biggest risk of our lives and that's exactly what we did! We were in the midst of recession at the time, and we were also dealing with motherhood, both having young children to provide for. It felt like the odds were stacked against us but we were resilient and knew that if we worked hard enough this would all work out and we would achieve the dream we had set out for.

The rest is history! 10 years, over 300 members of staff, and a countless amount of students after we remain Cardiff's premier pole dance studio, with more classes, courses and workshops available than anywhere else. Our studios have hosted dance teachers of all different styles, burlesque, twerk, Dancehall, street dance, hip hop and have become the regular home to a massive range of weekly lessons. We've even branched out into our own Hen and Stag party business, which has helped us keep our studios open.

Nothing makes us prouder than seeing students of all ages, genders and walks of life leave our studio with massive smiles on their faces, and watching them progress from their first ever class to advanced or even professional levels.

We could like to give our thanks to all of our supporters, students and staff past and present and also to Templar Parc for providing us with our Pole Twisters home for all these years but now is the time to move premises. With too much space at the studios we have decided to downsize and begin renting another studio from next week.

Watch this space!