FKA Twigs

how how you show yourself yeah well i think for me you know learning to pole dance it was also about reclaiming a narrative as a woman as well um and i know how to

create an allure with it and I know how to seduce with it but I also know how to intimidate people with it and I know how to make other people feel uncomfortable with it as well and so that's been very empowering and it's been important for me as a woman to reclaim that narrative in my life's journey I don't know I guess I'm very like respectful to to the language of of where

pole dancing came from and i like being able to add my story to that narrative as well and it's been very healing and it's amazing to see so many women now pole dancing and and getting in touch with their bodies in that way i love pole dancing as well because the pole becomes your partner yeah

And unlike other partners, that pole will never let you down as long as it's screwed into the ceiling properly.

That pole's always gonna be there for you.

It's always gonna hold you.

When you're hanging onto it, it's never gonna drop you.

So there's that trust there again.

Pole dancing installs a lot of trust in me because I have to be very present, because you can fall off and hurt yourself.

So it allows me to be present in my relationship with something which I like and then becomes a nice microcosm for the rest of my life.

Yeah.

I mean, you can see, like, from the 70s, really, there was a really big explosion of martial arts films and including a lot of amazing...

black lead characters yeah and yeah it's really beautiful the way these two very different cultures came together to create like a new genre which is my favorite thing when things like that happen it's my favorite thing culturally so yeah i was working on i have a video called sad day yeah and um i love that video

It's been a slow process and I've learned so much in this process of trying to shape something that's very delicate and very beautiful.

But actually I feel like this year a lot of good things have happened with it.

Like small incremental moves, but is that the right word?

Incremental?

Yeah, incremental moves with it.

But it's often just about getting the right family around something.

Honestly, like, and that's what I mean about being reserved.