The Cirque Du Soleil of Atlanta strip clubs gets doc treatment
For those who think strippers are all about clapping their cheeks and giving $5 lap dances to scrape up college tuition, the close-up on Magic City's talent is a rare eye-opener
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"Yo, you took your p*ssy game up a whole 'nother level. This is some Cirque Du Soleil p*ssy now, shit." - Chris Rock (from Kanye West's "Blame Game")
Forget what you thought you knew about the skrip club. After exposing the struggles of black tattoo artists with Color Outside the Lines: A Tattoo Documentary, Atlanta-based filmmaker/videographer Artemus Jenkins has trained his eye toward debunking the myths surrounding one of Atlanta's most stereotyped subcultures.
The dancers at revered Atlanta hot spot Magic City are the subject of the ongoing web-series P.O.P. (Power of Pussy). Through dressing room interviews with members of Magic's current and former lineup (including renowned "retiree" Gigi Maguire), the doc offers a behind-the-scenes peek into the lifestyle and the technical prowess it takes to work the pole.
For those who think strippers are all about clapping their cheeks and giving $5 lap dances to scrape up college tuition, the close-up on Magic City's talent is a rare eye-opener. First of all, they prefer the term "dancer" to "stripper" - because anybody can strip. And at the City, they forgo basic ass-shaking for the kind of Cirque Du Soleil pole acrobatics that might make Gabby Douglas let loose a stack of ones.