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2025 marks a decade of pole dance for River Roux, so far including two spectacular falls, one spine surgery, too many students to count, three titles at pole dance competitions, countless nights spend dancing for crowds too high to care and one sudden realization that ‚wait, this is my job now?‘.
Roux is a performance artist, writer and dancer on pole and aerial hoop working across theatre, performance and nightlife. Her work centers the connections between labour, gender, care and sex. JUICE, her first solo, is currently on stage at Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz. Roux was part of the Berlin Stripper’s Collective from 2021 to 2023, staging feminist interventions at Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, WHOLE Festival, Tag der Clubkultur and others before moving on to create solo. She has since repeatedly collaborated with Lola Arias, performing in her piece Happy Nights at the Theater am Goetheplatz Bremen and the 2024 IBSEN Award Ceremony. Roux co-wrote We’ve Always Been Everywhere, an audio walk to recover the history of sex work in Berlin-Schöneberg for Schwules Museum in 2022. Before turning to performance, she completed a BA in Photography at the University of the Arts Brighton.

@river.in.motion
www.river-roux.com
JUICE | Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz