Stripper and Pole dance is something between voltage, erotic, art and sports
This essay compares the two women. Stripper versus Pole dancer gets deep their intellectual knowledge. Striptease in Slovakia developed after the fall of communism. Girls a hard time looking for a job and end up at the club. Here is the story of a woman who manages to break free from dirty areas. Pole dance is something between fitness, gymnastics and art. It is very popular in the world but here in Slovakia conditions for this kind of sport are still not very good.
Zuzana Rossi has experienced and gone through almost everything in her life. She has been working as a stripper in a different kind of strip bars since early nineties. Physical and psychological violence and terror were inevitable parts of her life due to which she ended up in the hospital many times. Today, she is finally independent, working in her own stripper agency and selecting her jobs and clients. Dusana decided to start training pool-dance in 2014. As a former model and first runner up to miss Slovakia, she had ideal prerequisites for the sport. However, she struggled at the beginning. There were only few places to train and Dusana was still studying and looking for a job. After having spent two years with hard work and training she has become a personal and successful pool-dance trainer. Both girls have something crucial in common. It is the passion for what they do..
This story was awarded Slovak Press Photo 2015.