What’s the difference in Polistic Yoga and Pole Dance? The pole is controversial, but most have never heard the real story or experienced the benefits. Pole Dancing has been the most common form of Pole Fitness in America for the last 100 years. However, “Poling” has been in Asia and India as a male dominated sport for centuries. In the 1920s to the “Hootchie Coochie” Belly Dancers birthed the modern pole dance. The Hootchie Coochie dance was a sensuous dance involving movement of the hips typically done by middle eastern women, hence