ABOUT SLAY THE STAGE
Slay the Stage is an independently produced show, created to give the North Texas artist-athletes, in the areas of pole, aerial, burlesque and circus, a united outlet to showcase their passion and talent while building performance experience. This show is for everyBODY. Our goal is to create a platform for performers, beginner to professional, to have a creative outlet to share their talents and build their portfolio while inspiring the next generation of performers.
OUR MISSION IS TO SUPPORT THE COMMUNITY THROUGH:
PERFORMER DEVELOPMENT
We are pleased to offer a professional practice stage for performers and aspiring performers to showcase their talent, build their performer portfolio/resume and educate them on performance and character development. We celebrate diversity in movement, body, style and level by showcasing and appreciating each performer where they are at now.
STUDIO SUPPORT
We recognized that the local studios are the heart and soul of our community. We want to support the hard work that studios put in to keep their doors open, students safe and our industry growing. We serve by connecting and uniting our North Texas pole, aerial, circus, burlesque and dance community by bringing together our local students, instructors, studios and independent artists.
COMMUNITY INSPIRATION
& ENTERTAINMENT
Through the Slay the Stage show, we hope to entertain the cirque-curious that want to experience and learn more about our artistic sport and hopefully inspire the next wave of aerialists.
OUR ROOTS
We got our start as a way to help DFW pole competitors practice for PSO and get rid of performance anxiety and jitters. Little did we know it would evolve into a full community show, allowing us to support and share what makes our community so vibrant!
March 11, 2025
We Slayed in a new way: Virtually! The community came through and showed out for the North Texas Community Halftime Show. We were honored to be a part of this magical creation which featured students, instructors, studio owners and troupes from around DFW. We’re officially dubbing this Slay 7.5! Missed the show? Check it out here!
May 5, 2024
We brought that BIG SLAY ENERGY at our seventh show: Fire and Ice! Soar Creative gave us a new home and our performers SLAYED, flying high and flowing low. Our audience got to experience all of the feels with performances that brought that Fiya and performances that gives us chills. AND we were honored to feature Jason Span pole dancer and aerial extraordinaire as our guest performer. .
January 27, 2024
“It’s our party and we’ll SLAY if we want to” was the mood for the night at our sixth show: Slay Soirée! The night featured 14 amazing North Texas performers and we were thrilled to have the incredible Mary Caryl (owner of Mary Caryl Designs) as our guest performer.
September 17, 2023
We dedicated our fifth show, Dirty Disney, to our aerial sister Shannen Simmons and supported NAMI in her honor. Volume 5 featured pole and aerial performers from eight studios. We also had USPSF Team USA Pole and Silks Champion Sabrina Madsen of Savannah Cirque as our guest performer.
June 4, 2023
Our forth show, Colors, was more than a show. It was a celebration of PRIDE month and we hosted a fund raiser for the Trevor Project. We had performers from from beginner to professional, representing seven different DFW pole and aerial studios! We also had our very first silks, burlesque and flying pole performances.
February 27, 2023
Our third show, After Dark, featured performers from from beginner to professional, representing six different DFW pole and aerial studios! We also debuted a new stage setup and floor to ceiling backdrop.
December 4, 2022
Our second show, Naughty or Nice, which featured performers from from beginner to professional, representing five different DFW pole and aerial studios!
August 22, 2022
Our very first show which started as a way to give PSO SpaceCity competitors a way to practice and get rid of performance jitters.