Mary Ellyn Weissman

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MEW2012Mary Ellyn Weissman opened the first studio in the Chicago area, Empowerment Through Exotic Dance, Ltd., in 2005. She is also the organizer of the North American Pole Dance Championshipsâ and Convention, which began as the Midwest Pole Dance Competition in 2011 and is the organizer of Dance Wicked For A Week pole camp held bi-annually in Jamaica since 2009.

She was certified as a Master-Level Pole Dance Instructor through Pole Fitness Studios in 2006, and a group exercise instructor though AFAA in 2007. She then developed the first pole dance instructor certification program offered in the Midwest, which is sanctioned by the Pole Dance Community and the Pole Fitness Association.
She joined the Pole Dance Community as one of the first US studio/instructor members in 2009 and became the US Ambassador when the PDC was launched in the US in 2010. She continues to work with the PDC on international grading of students and instructors as well as promoting and developing criteria and guidelines, and the pole dance terminology committee.

In 2014 she joined the Liquid Motion instructor team and now also travels teaching workshops at studios and conventions.
Mary Ellyn continues to travel and consult, judging several competitions annually and is working with various groups on industry standards within the US, standardized terminology internationally, and consulting in the development of competition guidelines with other organizations.

 

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