Featherpistol’s work uses the sensuality of pole dance to access ancient frequencies of consciousness. On stage, she exists as a body in motion spinning on a central axis.  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.  By incorporating acrobatics into her choreography, these sinuous shapes are contrasted with strong lines.  It’s an important aspect to her work that she displays both femininity (the circle) and masculinity (the line) 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 strength to hold those lines, and juxtaposing this immutable energy with her slithering forms.  This creates an interval for audiences to access their own response to these movements.   Perhaps they can find a space to feel something they otherwise couldn’t access.  This isn’t just pole dance, this is something sacred. 

With this, “Feather” has brought pole dancing from strip club-connotations to the light of day as a form of healing, communication with the divine, spiritual time travel, and activism.  When we worship our bodies in this way, we worship the earth.  When we worship the earth, we worship the equality of all species that live on this planet with us.  Activation:  symbiosis.  Welcome to the tribe.