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Sexistential Dread: Photos by Stephen White The Last Mixed Tape
‘So what’s your day job outside of this?’ I often get asked by my pole students as we’re chatting between workshops. ‘This,’ I say. ‘This is my day job!’ Pole dancing, particularly teaching, is how I earn a living. When you book into one of my workshops, take my online lessons and / or attend...
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Sexistential Dread: Photos by Stephen White The Last Mixed Tape
A woman enters an apartment in Stoneybatter, Dublin. She wears a leopard print trench coat with black patent high heels. Undoing her coat in the hallway, she slowly reveals her black lingerie underneath. She fixes her stockings in the living room mirror. Removing her coat, she enters the bedroom. See her on the bed, reaching...
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Last Saturday November 4th I had the pleasure of making my debut at ‘The Candlelight Cabaret‘ in Lost Lane, Dublin. It feels like an age since I have performed in Dublin, as the pandemic coupled with a changing city shook up the Burlesque & Cabaret scene in our capital city. Now, new roots have taken...
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Arlene Caffrey portrait by Stephen White / The Last Mixed Tape
“Have you got a leather jacket?” says he. “No I don’t” says I. “Can I borrow yours?”… With it being Scorpio season, I wanted to share with you the full set from a photoshoot I made with fellow Scorpio Stephen White, The Last Mixed Tape, back at the end of August. Sometimes you meet someone...
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arlene caffrey pole dancing performance at defy gravity wales october 7 2023
Getting up at an ungodly hour to catch the ferry from Rosslare. Boarding the ferry, crammed into a mini bus filled with stags on their way to Cardiff for a weekend of shenanigans. Sitting in the café bar, listening to their soft, beer fuelled but wholesome giddy banter. Watching the shoreline disappear gradually, waves merging...
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Saturday September 30th, 2023. A white gold autumnal sunny early afternoon in Berlin, sipping an oat flat white in a hipster café near the Spree. I snap a photo of my coffee, put it in black and white and send to a close friend: ‘I’m here, I’ve made it. Living the dream’… This might seem...
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Arlene Caffrey frestyle pole dance to 'Enamoured of the Miniscule'
‘But don’t you ever say I didn’t care, ‘cause that’s not true But don’t you ever say I didn’t care, I care about you’. Please enjoy this sentimental improvisation on spin, in neon yellow. This was the last dance I made in my studio space at LSAD several weeks ago, playfully embodying ‘beauty without the...
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Arlene Caffrey, taking the final bow after her closing performance at 'Polyphonic Textures' exhibition at Limerick School of Art
This is me, after taking the final bow and closing the show having made my performance at the closing night of our ‘Polyphonic Textures’ graduation exhibition at Limerick School of Art & Design, 12/09/2023. ‘But do you really need to go back to art school?’ one of my colleagues seated at the boardroom table asks...
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arlene caffrey masters fine art exhibition at limerick school of art
It’s an emotional time as I have just completed my Masters Degree in Fine Art at Limerick School of Art & Design. My classmates and I opened our graduation exhibition, ‘Polyphonic Textures’, which is a culmination of our work over the past 12 months, at the Church Gallery at LSAD in Limerick city. This Fine...
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Arlene Caffrey performing The Death Of Cú Chulainn as the Morrigan in Amsterdam at The Slut Garden June 2023
I can share with you at last the full video, and some photos from my new act ‘The Death of Cú Chulainn’ that I created and performed for The Slut Garden in Amsterdam back in June. The concept for this act is informed by Oliver Sheppard’s sculpture of ‘The Death of Cú Chulainn’ at the...
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