Sanxiang Metropolis Daily all-media reporter Tian Tian correspondent Wu Xiangliu
Under the blue sky, in the sunset, on the grass, like a fairy dancing with the wind, free and beautiful. Yan Xi from Changsha, Hunan Province, danced the most romantic pole dance on the grass.
(Yan Xi dances in the wind.) ）
At the beginning of April, a pole dancing video outdoors became popular all over the Internet, and netizens exclaimed: "It's as beautiful as an oil painting", discovering another form of pole dancing. Yan Xi not only received countless likes from the whole network, but also made more people realize the different pole dance.
On April 11, Yan Xi shared with reporters the story behind the "romantic" dance.
Dancing in the wind, beautiful as a spring elf
Under the blue sky and white clouds, with melodious piano music, Yan Xi, who was dressed in a pink skirt, slowly danced on the steel pipe. Under the green grass, the delicate pink seems to be transformed into an elf in an oil painting. Different from the charming and dynamic pole dancing in everyone's traditional impression in the past, Yan Xi's pole dancing is full of the romantic atmosphere of spring. It is precisely because of this difference that a large number of netizens have attracted the attention.
"I've been trying to shoot dance videos outdoors since 2022, and it was this video that really caught fire in April this year. Speaking of the sudden popularity, Yan Xi was also pleasantly surprised. The 33-year-old has been learning pole dancing for 8 years and now runs her own dance club in Changsha. In her opinion, dancing is inherently liberating nature, and it is a natural decision to dance in a place where there is no ceiling.
(Yan Xi's life photo.) Photo courtesy of the interviewee)
In order to shoot a good outdoor dance video, Yan Xi worked hard. First of all, it is extremely important to choose the location, which is in line with the mood of the dance and does not interfere with others. After several searches, she set the shooting location by the river in the suburbs, far away from the city. There is no professional photographer, so she bought a mobile phone holder and constantly adjusted the shooting angle, just to record the dance process perfectly.
"In order to find a good angle, I often have to dance many times in one dance. Yan Xi said that all the videos are handled by her, from site selection to shooting to editing, she is learning and doing. Even though her dance videos were tepid before this explosion, she still insisted on updating them regularly.
I want more people to know about different pole dancing
"Like a flower swaying in the wind, gentle and powerful", "A tulip blooming on the grassland", "Blooming like a mountain flower", "A feeling of freedom, awesome", "This moment is as beautiful as an oil painting"......
After the video became popular on the Internet, Yan Xi received a lot of messages from netizens. "Saying that I made them reacquaint themselves with pole dancing, in the traditional impression, many people have a certain prejudice against pole dancing, thinking that pole dancing is hot and sexy, but in fact, dance has never been stereotyped, it can be a variety of different forms of expression. Yan Xi said.
In order to change everyone's stereotype of pole dancing, Yan Xi not only shot videos, but also opened various forms of offline course popularization, so that people who are interested in pole dancing can feel its charm.
"In the future, I will continue to study more forms of pole dancing, so that everyone can fall in love with different pole dancing. Yan Xi hopes that he can always dance with beauty.