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Slinky Productions is dedicated to demystifying the art and culture of exotic dance. We create a safe respectful environment for women of all ages & body types to explore their sensuality and get fit at the same time. 18+
Slinky
Productions Herstory...
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began the spring of 2000 by former exotic dancer, and visual artist Catherine Rose. At that time, 'lap dancing' and 'pole dancing' were unheard of terms, outside of strip-club culture.
Ms Rose pioneered the first exotic dance studio in the San Francisco Bay Area offering classes in pole dance lap dance and all things exotic dance. She introduced exotic dance bachelorette parties as a pre-wedding services to women al over the San Francisco and Bay Area. Today, pole dancing is all over mainstream and indie media as the sexiest and most controversial form of fitness to date. Pole Dance parties have become one of the most popular ways to celebrate a woman's passage to marriage.
Media: Slinky Productions has been featured in The San Francisco Chronicle, The Oakland Tribune, East Bay Express, SF Station, Contra Costa Times, Tease Magazine, The SF Bay Guardian, Clean Sheets, Red Book Magazine & The Curve Magazine. Ms Rose has been interviewed on local radio shows including KFOG's Fog Files, Sex with Emily, KUSF's Erotic Integrity with Dr. Claudia Six, and on national & international radio programs. Ms Rose has been featured in Burning Man's podcast Burncast, and Personal Life Media's Sex Love & Intimacy show. Slinky Productions is featured in books “Conversations with Great Teachers”, by Bill Smoot, “HUMP”, by Slinky student Kimberly Ford, (see "Kinderotics.") Slinky Productions is credited in Pole Dancing for Dummies and other instructional exotic /pole dance books.
Awards: Slinky Productions is a Best of the Bay Guardian Winner 2005 & 2007, 2nd Place SF Baylist Winner 2008 & 2009.
Performance: Catherine Rose performs at a host of local Bay Area sex positive events including the St. James Infirmary’s Benefit Cirque X, The Center for Sex & Culture’s Benefits Masturbate-a-thon and Hot Rods & Lube Jobs, Diane Greenberg's Nights of Revelation, World Dance Fitness, erotic exhibition tour ARTundressed, at Burning Man and at Oakland’s quarterly Open House F3 at the Cotton Mill Studios, where she currently resides.
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Slinky
Team:
Catherine Rose
CEO, Program Development, Business Development, Administration,
Customer Support, Website Developer and Master. Catherine teaches
the all day Intro to Exotic
Dance Workshop, Lapdance
Floorshow Combo Class, some Weekend Pole and some 4
Week Pole Classes, most Private
Parties including Bachelorette
Parties, all Lapdance
Classes and many upper level Pole Labs. She offers private
lessons in Oakland.
 Catherine
started her career as an exotic dancer at age 18, part-time, while
still in college. When she retired at 31, friends kept asking her
to show off “a few sexy moves” that they could easily
learn and use right away on their lovers.
Catherine began offering small workshops in sensual
dance exclusively to her close friends and communities in 2000.
It was through these informal efforts that Ms. Rose came to develop
her love of movement and working with women into a full time
business that now includes ongoing classes, private lessons, bachelorette
parties, and a unique award winning tour of strip clubs. (tours ended in 2010)
Known for her professional (yet personal)
approach, Catherine Rose will put you at ease with her supportive,
respectful style of teaching, helping you to reconnect with your
sexy feminine side. Having actually worked in the exotic
dance field for years before becoming teacher, Catherine is uniquely
qualified to demystify exotic dance concepts and techniques, as
well as the practice of the profession.
Catherine has years of training in:
- Modern Dance
- Belly Dance
- Aerial Dance
- AcroYoga
- Yoga
Catherine brings a wide range of experience to her business through her extensive education in the area of sexuality and communication. Since 1999 she has trained with the following organizations:
Ms Rose has recently completed a year long course in counseling psychology with InterChange Institute.
Catherine Rose, Owner and CEO of Slinky Productions performs on the X Pole at Harbin Hot springs Conference Center 8/08.
 "Exotic
Dance is an empowering form of self-expression and physical fitness
to be enjoyed by all women, regardless of age or body type. My
intention is to create a safe, non-judgmental and playful environment
where women of all ages and body types can step into feeling more
sexy and alive in their bodies and in their lives."
--- Catherine Rose,
Leading expert in the field of exotic dance for fitness, fun
and empowerment
Catherine
spends her time outside of work enjoying music, yoga, dance, contact
improv., acroyoga,
and being with friends. She studied visual/studio
arts for over 8 years in Canada and the USA and holds a degree in
Fine Arts
from the
San Francisco Art Institute.
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Our wonderful Instructor Sara North is stepping away from teaching pole dance to focus on other personal and professional goals. Thank you for all the years with us. We will miss you!
Sara first began
training with Slinky Productions in early 2004 as a student, and
transitioned to being our Exotic Dance Workshop Assistant soon after.
In 2005, Sara trained/apprenticed with Catherine Rose for
almost a year before leading pole dance classes for Slinky Productions.
"My love for teaching first manifested itself
in 2000 when I began teaching poi and fire spinning classes. I believe
in having fun and my teaching style reflects this philosophy."
A Licensed Acupuncturist and Chinese
Herbalist of Acupuncture as well as a yoga and pilates
student, North has an understanding of the human form and a strong
body safety awareness. She brings strength, grace, sexiness and
a warm sense of humor to her classes.
Candy WintersBeginner Pole Dance, Private / Bachelorette Parties
 Candy Winters started pole dancing in Los Angeles in 2009 as a result of a New Year's resolution to "feel sexy all the time". After 6 months of training she began teaching Beginner Pole Dance classes at Allure Dance Studios in West LA. Candy has also performed in various clubs in Southern California, focusing on choreography and having fun with the performance.
In spring of 2011 she moved to San Francisco and began working for Catherine Rose that summer. Candy teaches Pole Parties that encompass pole dancing, floorwork, chair dancing and lap dancing.
"I love being able to introduce to girls the world of pole dancing. It's a great feeling to find out all that you can accomplish in dance, especially if you're like me and don't come from an athletic or dance background. But the best part about it is the way it makes you feel!"
A Fashion Alumni from Otis College of Art and Design, singer, avid movie-watcher and bookworm, Miss Winters spends her time making clothes, taking English classes at CSM, and doing a lot of karaoke.
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See
photos of Catherine from her former days as an Exotic Dancer.
More
photos of Catherine.
Catherine is available to perform at private
parties and benefits. Rates are variable and free for benefits.
Please contact her.
How did a nice
Jewish girl from Montreal land up working a a Stripper in San Francisco?
Catherine Rose began exotic
dancing when she was 18 years old and still living in Canada. After
working a number of service jobs since age 13, she was drawn to
exotic dancing for the money. In 1983, after much deliberation,
including a college paper comparing the similarities differences
between male and female strip clubs and strippers, for a Humanities
class, she went to work in a small strip club outside of Toronto,
Ontario, in between semesters. It lasted for just one week.
In 1986, Catherine returned
to strip clubs but with her clothes on. She worked behind the counter
at an upscale gentlemen's club, Brandy's, in Vancouver, BC, while
on summer break from Art School. It was here that Ms Rose got to
witness some of the most memorizing performances while serving up
cappuccinos , preparing salads and sandwiches to the dancers and
patrons.
in 1987 she moved to
San Francisco from Montreal, Canada
Catherine auditioned at
the Lusty Lady Peep Show in 1989 (now unionized, worker owned and
operated) and continued to work part time while pursuing her path
as a visual artist.
She made good friends
with the dancers and support staff at the Lusty Lady and is mentioned
in several published books about the sex industry written by colleagues
who worked with her during this time. (under the names Kitty and
Cherry Luv)
Catherine worked at the
peep show for a couple of years before moving on to larger more
lucrative venues where she performed on a live stage as well as
on the laps of patrons. She worked in several strip clubs and traveled
to New York to work en route to Europe.
In 1995, Catherine Rose
returned to school full time at the San Francisco Art Institute
after receiving a scholarship in photography from SF City College.
In 1997 she became involved
with EDA, Exotic Dancers Alliance, an organization
founded by Johanna Bryer and Dawn Passar, Daisy Anarchy, helping
women to fight for better working conditions as well as assisting
dancers who chose to sue club owners for back wages. Catherine created
their first web site. note: EDA
founded the St James Infirmary in San Francisco,
a free health clinic for sex workers and their partners.
In 1998-99 Catherine retired
and went to work at the Academy of Art in SF as an Apple computer
lab technician.
She later branched off
to freelance as an Apple Technician, a Web Designer and Graphic
software Instructor.
In 2000 Catherine began
offering private exotic dance lessons to close friends as well as
group classes.
By the fall of 2000 Catherine
was teaching private groups on a monthly basis.
Slinky classes went public
in 2001 at time when it was almost unheard of, and in January 2004,
Slinky Productions was born and became a full time business.
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Personal
Life Media's Sex Love & Intimacy
Podcast Feb. 2008 with Chip August
