Pole Picknick
10. August 2025 from 2 pm to 6 pm at Elbsegler
About
The Dresden Pole Picnic is a socio-cultural outdoor event for pole art and pole dance enthusiasts and interested persons,which has been organized by Minor e.V. since 2016 at the Elbsegler in front of the historic city of Dresden.
The Dresden Pole Picnic brings together people passionate about pole dance, aerial hoop, and movement – an inspiring blend of art, movement, and community. In a relaxed open-air atmosphere, interested persons can train together for free or gain initial experience under the guidance of experienced instructors.
at Bilderberg Bellevue Dresden
Donations welcome
Organisation
The pole picnic is organized by the independent Dresden pole dance training community MINOR e.V.
Pole Art & Dance
Accompanied by our experienced trainers and participants, you can try out the pole yourself if you have no experience.
Aerial Hoop
Not only on the pole but also on the aerial hoop you can have fun at the pole picnic – or try it out under instruction. Let’s fly!
Movement Area
For us, the Pole Picknick is about movement, dance, and community. Why should this only be possible on aerial apparatus?
During the Pole Picknick, film and photo recordings of the event will be made.
By entering the premises and thus participating in the event, you agree to this. Minor e.V. ensures that the image material will be handled in a responsible and respectful manner.
What is important to us
Want to try something new? Let us help you!
Please do not wear any jewelry on your hands, wrists and/or ankles.
Please do not drink alcohol if you want to train with us.
Feeling sick? Then don’t go to the poles and take it easy!
What is important to us
Want to try something new?
Let us help you!
Please do not wear any jewelry
on your hands, wrists and/or ankles.
Please do not drink alcohol
if you want to train with us.
Feeling sick?
Then don’t go to the poles and take it easy!
Filming and photography are permitted as a participant in the Pole Picnic, but if you’re just watching, please refrain from doing so and respect the dancers’ privacy rights.
As organizers, we will ensure appropriate images and footage are captured and shared on our website and social media. We’ll make sure there are plenty of memories!
As a participant, you can, of course, film and photograph yourself. Please make sure that no strangers are recognizable when publishing your footage!
In particular, we would like to point out that pictures or videos in which children and young people are visible may not be published under any circumstances!
Highlights
2 pm
Opening & Warm up
We warmly welcome you to the 10th Pole Picknick and start with a joint warm-up. The basis for safe training and the perfect icebreaker at the beginning – let’s get moving!
2 to 6 pm
Responsiveness, Spatial Awareness & Community
We will spend the afternoon doing an exercise of spatial awareness, group perception, and agility, structured similarly to a child’s game, for example “Eckstein, alles muss versteckt sein”. The idea is that as performers (and also people who want to develop a more sensitive perception of space), we become more responsive to the individuals of a group, and are able to keep that connection through variations of distance between the participants.
The game aims to bring the participants to a state of attention and responsiveness achieved through playing, so that, just like onstage, we are spatially aware effortlessly, and lightly. The workshop is accessible to anybody, with any particular level/type of ability. You can step in and out at any point.
Joao Pedro de Paula is a freelance artist based in Dresden, a part of TanzNetzDresden, and holds a MA in Choreography from the Palucca University.
4:30 pm
Pole Performance
Her signature style combines expressive heel training, precise edge work and acrobatic elements. At the Pole Picknick, she will not only inspire us with her performance, but also get us fit for the joint training session during the warm-up!
4:30 pm
Pole Performance
Renan is an internationally acclaimed pole artist from Brazil. He teaches and performs worldwide. At Pole Picknick, he brings his powerful technique, flowing movements and expressive presence to the stage.
2 to 6 pm
Live Music
✦ yNOT
Born in Dresden and influenced by Berlin, Hamburg and festivals worldwide – from Burning Man to Fusion. yNOT creates melodic, driving sets full of emotion. His sound moves between light and shadow, between joy and melancholy. At Pole Picknick, he provides the perfect vibe.
Picknick Offers
Potato and leek soup
Cold & vegetarian
‘Vichyssoise’
–
5,50 €
Colourful vegetarian bowl
with vegan meatballs, sweet potato, chickpeas, tomato, beetroot, spinach and umami dip
9,50 €
Vegan summer salad
with beetroot sticks, sprouts, tomato salsa
–
6,50 €
The Elbsegler also offers other food and beverages.
Support and Sponsorship
If you like our Pole Picknick and would like to support us, we would be delighted to receive a donation – every euro helps us to continue organising Pole Picknick as a free event in the coming years!
Many thanks to our cooperation partner Bilderberg Bellevue Dresden for their support in organising and staging the Dresden Pole Picnic!
Special thanks also go to Ostsächsischen Sparkasse Dresden, whose financial support has enabled us to organize the Pole Picnic in this form. Without this help, it would not have been possible to hold the event!
The 10th Dresden Pole Picknick is also supported by
Elliwear
Wild Instincts
RedBull
Vagabundobjects
Convea
