Acting Up
Do you want to know the secret to becoming a successful actor? So do we.
Acting Up is a podcast made for struggling actors, by struggling actors (heavy emphasis on the struggling). Your hosts Megan Alderson and Jordan Skidmore delve into the harsh realities of breaking into a ruthless creative industry when you're working class, working a suffocating day job and disgustingly desperate. If you are sick of success stories and looking for something real, relatable and - in our opinion - quite funny? Welcome to Acting Up!
You can find us as @actingupthepodcast on all socials ;)
We are @megan_alderson_ & @jordan.skids
Artwork by @those_who.try
Acting Up
#NotaStripper and the History of Pole Dance
This week Megan and Jordan sit down to talk about their new favourite hobby, Pole Dance! From personal experience to a perplex history, this week it’s time to delve into the wonderful world of pole. Guest starring Jordan’s mum!
Megan discusses how the film ‘Anora’ inspired her to start, while Jordan discusses how she followed the ballet-aerial-pole pipeline and how it’s healing her relationship with dance.
Megan goes into the nuanced and contested origin story of pole dance and how it became the art form/sport we know today and how sex workers brought it into the mainstream. Jordan delves deeper into the association between pole dance and sex work and whether or not you can honour the origin of the art without sexualising its practitioners. An Acting Up journalistic trip to the strip club may well be in order?
Discussion also turns to whether or not we could ever see pole dance included in the Olympics and why we haven’t thus far.
Apologies for the late release, as you will hear Jordan has been super busy moving house so tune in for an enormous catch up too!
Tangents include forgetting you’re an agent, a year in review teasers, being a victim of the crime of doing admin, why is moving the worst thing ever, chatty kitties and PS this is a PRO GRIP PODCAST!
You can find us as @actingupthepodcast on all socials ;)
We are @megan_alderson_ & @jordan.skids
Artwork by @those_who.try
Wanna be on the pod? Email actingupthepodcast@gmail.com 🃏