Stock Photo - A young Colombian pole dancer performs a dance routine during a pole dance training session in a gym in Bogotá, Colombia, 24 October 2019. Pole dance, a performance combining sport with art and merging dance with acrobatics on a vertical pole, has reached wide popularity in Latin America in the last decade. With dance and physical attraction being a natural way of expression for many Latinas, thousands of women take pole dancing classes in gyms and dance studios, as a form of fitness and social entertainment.