Dance in Film · 2014
Off The Floor (2014)
Jagged’s dancers fuse aerial pole work with concert dance and lyrical floorwork, building story-led ensemble pieces while rehearsals, live shows, and televised auditions expose the labor behind a new performance form.
Off The Floor is a 2014 dance documentary centred on Pole Dance & Pole Sport. For dancers, it's a chance to see the style performed on screen — the phrasing, partnering, and musicality that the same dances carry onto a real floor.
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Dance styles featured
Where to watch: Official full film linked on Vimeo from the film’s website (verified 2026-08-11).
The dance sequences in Off The Floor
4 sequences — what is danced, by whom, and where to find it.
America’s Best Dance Crew audition
Pole ArtDanced by Jessica Anderson-Gwin; Jagged dancers · Choreography Jessica Anderson-Gwin
The company’s pole-dance vocabulary meeting a TV gatekeeper that dismisses it as too sexy.
Jagged compresses a developing concert form into a television audition, asking aerial shapes and group timing to communicate immediately. The rejection also reveals how presentation context can override the dancers’ intended artistic frame.
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America’s Got Talent appearance
Pole ArtDanced by Jessica Anderson-Gwin; Jagged dancers · Choreography Jessica Anderson-Gwin
Jagged placing a concert-minded pole ensemble on a national talent-show stage.
The televised number tests whether contemporary pole art can hold its identity inside a variety-show frame. Jagged’s ensemble focus resists reducing the apparatus to novelty, even when the audition cannot break through.
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Apartment rehearsals for Jagged’s upcoming shows
Pole FloorworkDanced by Jessica Anderson-Gwin; Jagged dancers · Choreography Jessica Anderson-Gwin
Jagged dancers rehearsing among poles inside Jessica’s small apartment.
Working in close quarters makes the floor-to-pole transitions read as practical composition rather than spectacle alone. Repetition turns lyrical floorwork, pole entries, and group timing into a shared company language.
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Jagged’s live full-length contemporary pole show
Pole ArtDanced by Jessica Anderson-Gwin; Jagged dancers · Choreography Jessica Anderson-Gwin
A full company performance carrying one choreographic story through aerial and grounded movement.
The staged show treats the pole as an apparatus for concert-dance storytelling, not a string of isolated tricks. Ensemble phrasing and sustained theatrical intention make the emerging form legible to an audience beyond the pole community.
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