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—effortlessly spinning around a pole and mindlessly performing lap dances while chewing on bubblegum—you would never know she had zero dance experience before starring in the film. To portray the 23-year-old sex worker from Brooklyn’s Brighton Beach neighborhood, Madison voraciously consumed whatever media she could, spent time visiting strip clubs, and trained with professional choreographer
“She was working before she was working,” says Schneider of Madison, whose transformation she’s “so proud of.”was a full-circle moment for the L.A.-based dancer. Schneider first developed her knack for choreography in her 20 years as an elite gymnast, crafting floor routines for herself and her teammates. Then, while studying photography and film in university, she continued to see movement as a “creative outlet,” and learned the art of pole dancing while simultaneously working in strip clubs.
While we were learning, there was a lot of back and forth and conversation because pole dancing has a lot of different genres. It can look like ballet, it can look very angelic and polished, and it can also look very raw and powerful. Watching Mikey, it was wonderful to see the raw edges in the way that she dances and the groundedness and intuition that she had that maybe wasn't polished to perfection like a ballerina.
We did talk about more intimate lap dances with Vanya and how that might feel compared to, say, a group of bachelors where she's on the pole and she's like a party girl. It's going to be a much more fun and playful movement than an intimate lap dance with a love interest. So we worked on movement subtleties and she really took that and ran with it in the film.Oh my gosh, yes. I think that first session we had was my moment of surprise and shock.
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