Short answer. Pole heels is pole dance performed in platform high heels. The pole stays. The shoes change balance, lines and the way you travel across the floor.
A heels class still includes contact with the pole: walks into a spin, floorwork that returns to a climb, holds that have to work in shoes. It is not a catwalk with a pole in the corner, and it is not automatically more advanced or more “sexy” than barefoot pole. Studios teach it at introduction level. Flow Factory offers pole heels at initiation, level 1 and level 2.
What you are training
- How to walk and turn without falling off the platform.
- How the heel changes your hip and knee position, and therefore the entrance to a move.
- Pole contacts that still hold when your feet are raised and less able to brace.
- Sequences. Heels classes are often choreographic. Flow Factory’s general pole path is more often described as progressive technique. Both happen in the same building.
You bring the shoes. Flow Factory says so explicitly and does not name a brand. Heights, boots and sandals are covered in choosing shoes.
Who it is for
People who want that movement quality, whether or not they already do barefoot pole. An introduction exists so you do not have to invent a background. If you have never worn platforms, the first job is standing and walking, not an invert in new shoes.
If you want the dance and not the pole, you want heels dance. The split is pole heels vs heels dance. For which Brussels studios publish the class, use pole heels in Brussels.