Date: 2012-05-11 12:38 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sombre-sleep.livejournal.com
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Pole dancing probably started in America in the 1920s, when traveling show dancers used a tent pole as a prop in their acts. The relationship to Chinese poles is unclear; Chinese troupes performed in Barnum and Bailey's Circus from 1914 but they did not perform on poles. Pole dancing gradually moved from tents to bars in the 1950s.