Miami Hurricane, September 24, 2009

              The Miami Vol. 87, Issue 9 | Sept. 24 - Sept. 27, 2009
HURRICANE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI IN CORAL GABLES, FLORIDA, SINCE 1929
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O HE H UNI NI N VE V RS RSIT IT I Y O MIA IA I MI M CO CORA RA R L GA G BLES ES ES, FL FLOR OR O D ID IDA, A, S N IN INCE CE C 192 9 9
From pliés
to poles
Alumna opens pole dance studio
hen University of Miami alumna Susan Hilferty saw a
segment about pole dancing on Oprah, she immediately
called her friend to visit featured dancer Sheila Kelley’s
studio in California.
Hilferty, who came to UM on a dance scholarship in 1985 and was
on the first Sunsations Dance Team, was interested in this new form
of dance.
“It was just like ballet,” she said. “But now the bars were vertical
not horizontal.”
From the first time she walked into Kelley’s studio, she felt a change within.
Her engagement had recently been called off and she saw this hobby as something
she could do for herself.
“As girls we are socialized on this promise of marriage and if
we don’t get married we feel like we failed,” she said.
For the next two years, she went to five different studios for
weeks at a time trying to get a complete knowledge of this form
of dancing.
She opened Miami’s first stripping exercising studio,
Pole Fitness Miami, in 2006 while simultaneously working at
Taro Pharmaceuticals.
“I did use the degree I earned at UM,” she said.
A year ago she left her pharmaceutical job and decided to turn her atten-tion
solely to her studio. The Coral Gables location is located minutes away
from the university on 4018 Aurora St.
BY ED S. FISHMAN | NEWS EDITOR
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