Victoria, BC · Fall 2026
PoleCoven is Victoria's pop-up pole and dance studio. Our next performance season is taking shape across the city, with classes, workshops, and creative programs being finalized. Explore what's coming and register for what's live now.

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Sept 1, 2026 Update
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Six weeks of floorwork training in platform heels, ending on stage in Dance with the Devil, presented by Pandora's Box Cabaret.
Heels and floorwork technique for movers who already know their platforms. Refine your walk, your floor transitions, and the way the shoe changes everything.
Our regular weekly classes, hosted across greater Victoria.
A ninety-minute workshop for people with no experience at all. Barefoot, co-taught, safety-focused. We're finalising dates now.
Tell me when it opens
How we work
For Fall 2026 we're back to the model we started with in 2020: smaller programs spread across multiple studios.
Three studios are on the calendar now, with more joining through the season. Popping up keeps us close to the island's other dance communities.
More about usWhere we teach
They're in three different parts of town, so check where your class meets before you set out.
715 Yates St
Downtown Victoria
Pole Class, Workshop, and Open Studio Pop-ups
3218 Jacklin Rd
Langford
Pole Class and Workshops Pop-Ups
734 Aldebury St
Esquimalt
Floorwork and Performance Training Pop-Up
We're confirming additional spots through the season. The mailing list hears first.
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Pole Coven × Pandora's Box Cabaret
Six weeks of floorwork training in platform heels, starting September 9 and ending with you on stage in Dance with the Devil: Reap What You Sow. Three nights of wicked variety performance with Pandora's Box Cabaret.

Photograph by Katie B. Vision
Series Information
The show you'll perform in
Presented by Pandora's Box Cabaret and written, created and produced by Duchess St. Claire. Hosted by the Devil himself, it blends burlesque, drag and dance into a night of variety performance built around the seven deadly sins. PoleCoven performs a guest piece.
It's their second rendition. Last year the show asked who is in hell and whether they deserve it. This year it asks who is on earth, and deserving of hell.
Details are maintained by Pandora's Box Cabaret. Their page is the current one.
This is not a gentle show, and you'd be performing in it. Pandora's Box lists the following themes: death, violence, implied sexual assault, grief, torture, injustice and murder. The show carries strong political themes and leans into the horrors we face as a society.
If any of that is something you'd rather not spend six weeks inside, that's a good reason not to apply this round. Don't worry, we'll have other shows. Enrol in ELEVATED or come to drop-ins until the next one is announced.
Dress code for the audience is Midnight Society Macabre: black and red, elegant mourning shrouds, witchy couture.
Read the full warningsDance with the Devil 2025
Set in a historic church built in 1888 (now home to a ballet school), last year’s show premiere unfolded beneath glowing stained glass with the audience seated in original wooden pews. Join us again this year for an intimate, reverent setting that makes this performance unforgettable.



Photos by Katie B. Vision
Floorwork Series Options
ELEVATED floorwork technique on its own.
$130+ GSTThe full program — ELEVATED plus the performance track.
$300+ GSTAlready registered for ELEVATED and want to join the show? The performance track can be added on its own for $170 + GST — apply using the same form.
Is this for you?
Not there yet? Keep training with us in ELEVATED and apply for a future series — this one comes back around.
The commitment
How to apply
Fall 2026
Sundays at Studio 4 Athletics downtown, Thursdays at PoleTrix in Langford, Wednesdays at Pandora's Box Cabaret. More locations are being confirmed through the season.
We're writing class descriptions, level guides and instructor pages over the next few weeks. What's below is live and bookable right now. The schedule and pricing come straight from our booking system, so they stay current even while the rest of this page catches up.

This week
Pulled straight from our booking system, including classes added mid-season.
Passes
Drop-ins, class packs and memberships, live from our booking system.
Email us and describe your training so far. We'd rather place you well than have you bounce off something too hard.
Get in touchSince 2020
PoleCoven is a pole and movement studio in Victoria, BC, where technical training, embodied exploration, and personal expression belong together. We honour pole’s lineages and welcome all bodies, backgrounds, and reasons for moving. Come to build strength, develop artistry, and become more capable without becoming less yourself.

HOW WE STARTED
PoleCoven hosted its first classes in March 2020. In 2021, we hosted our first student showcase, and the program has grown since then. PoleCoven has grown its drop-in technique and performance training programs over the past 6 years, and holds regular shows at Dance Victoria in Saanich and Artemis Whiskey Bar located in Market Square.
Since our initial pop-ups out of Studio 4 Athletics downtown, we expanded by collaborating with community partners like Luminesque Dance, Pandora’s Box Cabaret, and others. In 2024, we produced our first show, Thrive, and now focus on creating student performance opportunities.

Where this comes from
This art form emerged from strip clubs, and the moves we adore in floorwork, heels, and pole are from the sex workers who built the movement vocabulary the whole industry now trains on. We teach it as their art form, credited, rather than as a workout that happens to involve a pole.
Who teaches
Our instructors are working performers: the material they teach is the material they take on stage. Your goals and your pace set the class; their job is to get you there safely.
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Programs
Operations
We're glad to hear from instructors who teach the way we do: technique first, credit where it's due, and a room where everybody belongs.
Teach with usHow we run now
This Fall 2026, we've shifted back to our original model, but at a larger scale of venues. You can find us on Sundays at Studio 4 Athletics, Thursdays with our friends at PoleTrix, Wednesdays at Pandora's Box Cabaret, with more announced as the season goes on.
We read everything
Two inboxes, so your message lands with the person who can actually answer it.
Where to start, what to bring, cancellations, injuries, anything about money.
[email protected]Questions about applying, prerequisites, or whether a series is right for you.
[email protected]Mailing list
First Touch dates, new pop-up locations, series applications opening, and show announcements. We only write when there's something to say.
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