Lorna Walker | How to be creative with your choreography | Episode #009

This week I’m interviewing the talented and beautiful creature that is Lorna Walker. She was Miss Pole Dance UK 2013 and recently won Pole Theatre Drama Pro in Germany.

She is a Master Trainer for XPERT Pole and Aerial Fitness, teaches workshops around the world as well as running her successful studio Pole Athletes.

I wanted to get her on to discuss her upcoming project Lorna Walker Choreography as well as some tips and tricks for helping you be more creative with your choreography – hope you enjoy!

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Sarah:                      Welcome Lorna Walker to my podcast. Thank you for doing it such short notice. I pounced on you yesterday with like, “Lorna, do my podcast!”

Sarah:                      How are you doing, lovely?

Lorna:                      Well now, I’m great. It’s a pleasure to do it, Sarah. So yeah, thank you for asking me. I’m doing really good. It’s just in between classes and juggling things so yeah, you called at a good time.

Sarah:                      Your background is so much more interesting than mine. If you’re listening to this and not watching it, you have to go to YouTube and watch the video. You’ve got fantastic wallpaper. Just going to put that out there.

Lorna:                      Oh, thank you. It’s my office. This is my creative space.

Sarah:                      I can see. Very inspiring. So the reason why I wanted to get you on the podcast was to talk a little bit about your new project. And so I’ll let you kind of explain what it is and maybe what inspired you to do it.

Lorna:                      Yeah, well my latest project is I’m starting some online choreography courses. So it’s all in the process. The website’s kind of being built at the moment, but hopefully we should have it released within the next four weeks. And it’s basically, you can learn full routines online with me.

And I kind of had the idea … I teach choreography a lot at my studio and I create good routines for my students and then they’re kind of just done and that’s it, and then they never get used again.

And it just seems like a lot of work to be kind of wasted to only teach it to a handful of people, and then those routines never get used again. So I kind of thought, well, maybe I could put them online. So yeah, that’s what I’m gonna do.

Sarah:                      I think it’s a fantastic idea. When you first told me about this it was like, “This will be amazing!” When I used to run my studio, it’s amazing to offer your students choreography classes all the time, and I think I saw a post that Jazzy put up the other day, she was like, “I hope my students realise how much time and effort it takes to make up routines and put it all together and like have new content all the time.”

And to have the potential of having it already done for you as like a space you can go to and pick different routines to learn is … I don’t think there’s much out there, especially for pole dancers, so I think it’s a great idea.

Lorna:                      Yeah, I think there’s a lot of online resources for pole dancing, but it’s usually-

Sarah:                      Usually tricks?

Lorna:                      Maximums of one minute. Or even if it’s flow or choreo-based,