ABOUT SLUT RECITAL
Slut Recital is a bi-monthly pole and erotic dance showcase. Slut Recital was started in March 2021 by Emily Rooker and Krystal Jacksin with the goal of showcasing the talents of pole students, sluts, and heauxs in Memphis, Tennessee and beyond. The show has now featured more than a dozen performers across the U.S. All sluts are welcome.
ORGANIZERS
Emily Rooker
Co-Creator & Co-Organizer
Emily Rooker is a big, bad, slutty Pisces masterpiece. As an artist, Emily aspires to be a Leonard Cohen/Lady Gaga crossover - a sensitive, thoughtful poet and writer with a penchant for dramatics, glitter, and belting vocal takes. Emily was born in Michigan during the 1993 Winter Storm of the Century, and has internalized that flurry of wintry chaos through her creative output - she’s a reformed theater kid, a lifelong musician, a pole dancer, a poet, a maker, an organizer, and above all else - an artist. Emily is a co-creator and co-organizer of Slut Recital, a bi-monthly virtual erotic dance showcase, a founding member and the Interim President of Artkognito, and has released 2 studio albums as a solo artist and one EP as part of a 4-piece band, Name and the Nouns. Her third studio album and most ambitious musical work to date, The Long Goodbye, is coming in Spring 2022. You can follow Emily @erookstagram on Instagram, stream her music on Spotify and wherever music is available, and learn more about her at her website www.emilyrooker.com
Krystal Jacksin
Co-Creator & Co-Organizer
Krystal Jacksin is a Dancer, Instructor, Wife, and Stay at Home Mom of two. She was raised in Kennesaw, GA, and trained in Ballet, Modern, Jazz, West African, Dancehall, Pole, Chair, and Twerk. Krystal is a lifelong dancer and will always pay homage to her technical training; however, she is thankful for the more non-traditional styles of dance like pole. For Krystal, the more sensual and sexy styles of dance make her feel at home. You will catch her shaking, showing, and throwing ass in every aspect of her movement journey.
Krystal started pole dancing in 2008, began her teaching journey in 2012. Krystal sees the value in individuality in movement spaces along with the freedom to express sensuality and sexuality in a way that feels good to the student. She strives to provide a space for people to come and share their full selves without fear of being or doing too much. Krystal wants you to do and to be EVERY-FUCKING-THING, unapologetically.
Kristian Thomas
Mistress of Sluts
Kristian Thomas is a dancer, instructor, singer, and artist. She is a lifelong performer who grew up coordinating dance numbers with her sister and performing for her family, which later translated into experience in show choirs and theater. Currently, she is the MC for Slut Recital and serves on the organizing team. Kristian is a gifted pole and erotic dancer who has performed across the country and now teaches movement. In the future, Kristian plans to begin releasing music and offering hand-crafted self-care goods. You can see Kristian perform and MCs at Slut Recital and take classes with her virtually and in-person in Memphis, TN. She might let you follow her on IG at @iam_browngirlboss
Alex Hensley
Creative Director
Alex Hensley (she/they) is a lover of all things beautiful and their current art form is pole dancing. Alex started pole dancing in November of 2019, and consider it a liberatory practice and a hearty FU to the evangelical purity culture they were raised in.
Since then, she’s performed several times in Slut Recital, a bi-monthly virtual erotic dance showcase, and is now a part of the planning team. You can follow Alex’s pole journey on Instagram @polerbby. Additionally, they are the Interim Administrator for Artkognito.
Much of Alex's creative energy has gone into building community and making social change. Alex has successfully led campaigns in Memphis to achieve historic oil pipeline regulation, public transit funding, criminal justice & police reforms, and living wages for workers. Overall, they seek to find & create beauty in all things.