Ivy walks the line between traditional danza and pole dancing, delicately sliding up and down its hidden connection and utilizing it as a form to honor her body and ancestors. Uniting both worlds as the keys to her altar, she climbs the metal heights of the strip pole the same way she ascends the olden steps of a great teocalli and manifests a sex positive world to reside in. Ivy offers her body to the ancestral shrine in order to merge the dueling yet complimentary energies of the ancient with the modern, the sacred with the sensual, and the land with her temple; all as a way to form a new manner to tell her story on this Earth.

Shot and Edited by Polaris Castillo
Music by Dorina Arellano
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