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‘Strip Down, Rise Up’ Review: Pole Dancing Without Polemic

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Lisa Kennedy In “Strip Down, Rise Up,” an attendee of S Factor’s beginning pole dance course admits to her fellow students that the class is nothing like what she thought it would be. “When I showed up, I wasn’t scared,” the woman tells those gathered in a circle. “Now I’m a little scared.” In her welcoming remarks, S Factor founder Sheila Kelley promised that might happen.

Whether Amber, the pert, fit newbie, will stick with the L.A. studio’s six-month course remains to be seen.She’s right, though.

The class at the heart of “Strip Down, Rise Up,” upends expectations. So does director-producer Michèle Ohayon’s cinema verité movie.

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