LINDSEY TEALL: The reason why we decided to perform as a family is because we love dancing together.
JAKE NIGHT: We’ve had a lot of different reactions from people coming in seeing a pole.
JAKE NIGHT: We’ve had an exterminator come over and he is like, “Oh what’s that for? Is it just holding up the
ceiling?” I’m like, “No! It’s an exercise pole you know, it’s a dance pole.” He’s like, “Does your wife dance?”
I was like, “Well, we all dance.” and that’s kind of like where you get this look like, “Oh!”
LINDSEY TEALL: Yeah that’s the point, that’s the point where they become intrigued.
LINDSEY TEALL: Well my background is in dance, I got my degree in dance. I started pole dancing because I
was going through a divorce and I really needed something to you know, spark my creative artistic nature.
So I went to a club and I saw a dancer on stage and I said I really want to try this.
JAKE NIGHT: I was a former gymnast, I had been in theatre so I was always acting, I was always performing.
I started pole dancing when I was around 21-22 years old as an exotic dancer.
JAKE NIGHT: She came along and showed me up a lot and then I had to start, I had to start bringing my game
up you know.
LINDSEY TEALL: At first we didn’t pole dance together and after we had our first child together, our daughter
Laura, we bought a pole and I started teaching classes and that’s when I really started discovering my love for
competitive pole dancing and for just performing on the pole outside of a club.
LINDSEY TEALL: We’ve done performances where we’re both on the pole. We’ll do doubles. It was really
refreshing and being able to do it with a partner and then adding our kids into that aspect was amazing.
LINDSEY TEALL: I was pole dancing when I was pregnant with both of the girls and I think that when they
were born they felt that they were already a part of that art.
JAKE NIGHT: As parents you are scared at first but at the same time you know, you are there, you are right
there you know, you are really proud of them because they are doing these things that most of the time
you see adults having trouble doing.
JAKE NIGHT: It’s really cool you know to see your kids take after you when you really don’t even you know.. LINDSEY TEALL: Push them JAKE NIGHT: Push them you know.
JAKE NIGHT: I would like for you to meet Roslyn. She is our 3-year-old who pole dances and
she is also our little ginger daredevil.
LINDSEY TEALL: We pole dance everyday if not more so I dance at work obviously and then the kids dance when I
am not here and they also dance when I am here.
AIDEN: I pole dance almost all the time. Basically whenever I get home sometimes I just jump on the pole,
do a few tricks, jump off, do my normal thing.
AIDEN: I actually do wanna compete in pole dancing when I’m older. So that way it can be like a family
tradition to compete.
LINDSEY TEALL: We feel that pole dancing is a sport for kids as well as adults because it’s very dance heavy and
it’s also very gymnastics heavy.
LINDSEY TEALL: Be strong, you have to be graceful.
JAKE NIGHT: I think that the benefits for kids in pole dance is that it builds discipline but it also builds,
you know, interest in more than one art form at a time.
LINDSEY TEALL: Ten years ago you would say okay pole dancing is stripping and now pole dancing is anything
you want it to be. It could be, it could be stripping, it could be burlesque, it could be sport; I mean they have
competitions all over the world, they have conventions.
JAKE NIGHT: We have dealt with a lot.. LINDSEY TEALL: So many!
JAKE NIGHT: Of negative comments. So many I mean I can't even count, thousands upon thousands upon thousands.
LINDSEY TEALL: You can't save or explain to everybody that this is, this is legitimate like it’s a legitimate sport
and a lot of people you just can’t change their opinion.
JAKE NIGHT: Yeah, I mean we heard some pretty horrific things you know, they were going to hunt us down,
kill us and take our children LINDSEY TEALL: Yeah and kill us.
LINDSEY TEALL: We were teaching our children how to be little sluts I mean like it was pretty bad.
JAKE NIGHT: I actually pity them. LINDSEY TEALL: It’s becoming an epidemic.
JAKE NIGHT: More than I pity anybody that has to deal with it. I don’t think that they have enough time on their
hands to actually enjoy their own life. So we enjoy ours, sorry not sorry.
LINDSEY TEALL: We are living our most authentic life. Sometimes people just don’t like that, they just want you
to be like everybody else.
LINDSEY TEALL: I actually don’t have any concern with my children participating in pole dance.
LINDSEY TEALL: Stripping is becoming somewhat obsolete. Clubs are getting less busy, they are dyin
down. Pole dancing is taking a new route. It’s evolving into a sport and into an art.
JAKE NIGHT: The naysayers and the haters and everybody like that, just makes us as parents more
protective of them.
LINDSEY TEALL: Where we see our kids in the future with pole dance, I just want them to enjoy the art.
LINDSEY TEALL: They are going to do whatever they decide to become with passion.