Pole Dancing for 2 hours and 22 minutes

Video of 2 hours and 22 minutes taken by Laure Pépin during her performance, in which she pole dances until body exhaustion, and later diffused on a plasma screen at the Angel Row Gallery in Nottingham.

Pole Dancing for 2 hours and 22 minutes

For 2 hours and 22 minutes

I danced around

Without stopping.

Although everything is turning around

my head feels dizzy

my body sways.

I maintain the rhythm,

grab it firmly

and I swing.

There is nothing else but me and it

I listen to my body and its responses to verticality

and I swing,

swing in a fury

where I see the world dancing

head spinning

never stop or you crash

head spinning around

the world is dancing

never really felt it this way before

my head just knows : never stop

It starts getting hot,

lights on me

and the world’s dancing

while my body is smashing open

my insides outside

and the world is dancing

it’s hard to breathe

hard to stand

but I maintain myself until I release the verticality

and smash to the ground

the last release

the last hot breathe…