This has long been (and continues to be) the perception about pole dancing – limited to bars and strip clubs. But a whole lot of youngsters in India are turning to it to enhance their fitness game.

Three spellbinding aerial artists in L.A. on the continuously evolving, and still misunderstood, art of pole dancing.

"That's something I've never been extremely confident in." To help, she decided to take pole dancing lessons. "I've always looked at pole dancers and just been amazed at their flexibility," she says.