Siân Docksey’s got the dread: can pole dancing help? As she says, it’s hard to think about the ice caps when you’re melting off a pole yourself, and continuing to claim her classes as a business expense doesn’t hurt either. In a beautifully chaotic, laugh-out-loud funny performance, Docksey creates a world where astrology rules, funeral tributes are pole dance-based and that dread simply cannot be allowed to win. She also does a mean line in pole impressions, surely a world first. 

People are, of course, free to have all sorts of opinions about pole dancing, but this is Docksey’s world and it’s her joy (and dread) that matters; we’re simply visitors. Lucky us then, to be able to step inside the existential crisis of a performer reaching peak power, with a final three minutes that are as life-affirmingly brilliant as anything you’ll see in Edinburgh this month. Leave your preconceptions at the door, argue about her feminist analysis in the pub later (to be fair, there’s plenty to debate). But for now, it’s enough to jump on and pursue joy in all its inconvenient forms. In other words, see for yourself: it’s OK, she wants you to look.

Siân Docksey: Pole Yourself Together, Pleasance Dome, until 28 August, 7.10pm.