Lauralynn Featherpistol

Lives and works in South Lake Tahoe, CA, USA

Artist statement

Lauralynn Featherpistol didn’t always know that pole dance was a ritual pathway to Sound Healing and worshipping the earth. Today, this sacred truth is woven into her bones, her muscles and her soul. She has performed for circus audiences of hundreds and the intimate settings of small cabaret clubs all over the world. Yet she is always guided by the personal, sacred magic between a human being and a dance pole. Her studies as a Sound Healer strengthened this ethos. Featherpistol’s work uses the sensuality of pole dance to access ancient frequencies of consciousness. Her style brings circular movement to an often linear world, drawing inspiration from the undulating shapes of sound waves and the sacred rhythms of traditional dance forms. Yet she also likes to play with her own masculine energy by incorporating acrobatics into her choreography. It’s an important aspect to her work that she displays both extreme femininity and masculinity in the same performance. By allowing her head and neck to circle around her torso, she is tuning her body and mind and inviting you to join her. When she circles her torso and hips, she’s beckoning the music to enter her cells and transmit their power, and hopes you feel something too. As she strikes acrobatic poses on the pole, she is harnessing all of her masculinity to hold those lines, and juxtaposing this immutable energy with her feminine forms. This creates an interval for audiences to access their own response to these movements....

Artwork