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Varies, cuz I travel. The longest is in Guam, sometimes (when it's busy) you do 12 full length songs (4 stages, 3 songs each)!! Usually though, 2-3 songs no more than 5 minutes each.
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At my current club it's 2 songs during the day on the main stage but on busy nights and on the weekends you go from the main stage to our second, smaller stage for another two songs after your first set. Kind of tiring but great exercise.
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Currently at the club im at now im on stage for 15 - 20min. We do 4 song sets usually... later on at night we do 3 songs. My club refuses to have an empty stage so when we dont have a lot of girls its 4 songs.
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At my club each set is 3 songs lasting about 2-3 minutes per song. And we rotate, we have 4 groups or 4 sets and we do them by a color code so you figure you probably go up on stage every 20 minutes or so. This is just a guess because I've never actually calculated how long it is. I'm sure it varies from club to club.
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Hehe I wish we could do 2min songs. My club requires each song to be 3min 15 seconds to 4min...
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If we don't have a lot of girls we do 3 song sets for as long as the songs last - they play start to finish. When we have more girls, we go down to 2 song sets, start to finish. Which sucks sometimes if you're not on stage and you get stuck doing a 7 minute lap dance! Towards the end of the night (3am or later to close - we're in New Orleans and the clubs have no set close time) we do what the DJ calls "iron man stripper" and the dancer can stay on stage for as long as she wants as well on the second stage. This is usually done on nights where there's just a few girls left and management for whatever reason is leaving the club open.
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At the club I am at normally 30 min.
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2 song set 2:30min each song...Total Dance: 5min
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we're on stage for 2 full songs, but we can pick the songs we want (within reason) so stage sets last anywhere from about 6 to 11 minutes.
it's nice to be able to pick short or long songs depending on the crowd. sometimes it's a waste of time to go on stage because guys are buying dances anyway and not tipping stage sets at all. other nights i get great tips on stage and i enjoy taking a break from doing table dances and making conversation.
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I'm contracted to do 18 minute sets.
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Scarlett....so the contract is for length only? So technically I guess you could dance to 6 3-minute songs, or 2 9-minutes ones, it wouldn't matter? How anal are they about this? I was wondering about this one day after reading a similar post a few months ago. If it's only 17 minutes, are they actually sitting there with a stopwatch or something? Do they cut it if you go over a little? Just curious, thanks.
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it varies per club. Its usually 2 songs or 3 songs, often depends on how fast they want to get you off and on stage.
3 songs is ideal though, it allows you more time to work the guys at the tiprail and line up privates. if i dont have 2-3 guys at each set wanting a private dance then I wasnt that good in my set. Your stage set is your ad, if you make guys hot in your stage act theyll line up to pay you bigger money for privates or vip.
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Wow! Some of you are up there for so long! My club does two songs, 2:30 each.
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about 8-10 minutes, usually we hit all 4 topless stages once and the nude stage twice.
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On average 15 minutes every hour - 2 hours depending on how many girls are on and whos busy etc.
Oh and we have a problem lately with the 8 o clock girls not showing up which means the poor dancer who does show up is often stuck on stage for 2 hours until the 10 o clock girls come in...
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Most clubs I have worked in have been 3 song stage sets. Songs are typically no longer than 3 minutes in length.
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Scarlett....so the contract is for length only? So technically I guess you could dance to 6 3-minute songs, or 2 9-minutes ones, it wouldn't matter? How anal are they about this? I was wondering about this one day after reading a similar post a few months ago. If it's only 17 minutes, are they actually sitting there with a stopwatch or something? Do they cut it if you go over a little? Just curious, thanks.
Yup, it's time. I could do 18 1-minute songs if I so desired, but I'd be unemployed pretty soon after, lol. The usual formula is 4 4:30 songs, or 3 longer songs if you're into techno. I often have to do 5 3:30 songs because my taste tends to run to the shorter ditties...hence my love of really long 'good' songs.
Most clubs are medium anal...the DJs program out music and the digital display automatically adds the times together. Or, in some clubs they record your time on stage and your time off stage. You get fined if you're under, though that's rare- usually the DJs tell you beforehand so you can switch your music up. Some clubs are super lenient (I love you, Penthouse!). Some clubs won't allow you under 17:50. Most are OK with 17:30.
God, it's ridiculous, isn't it? Writing it all out, it seems dumb. But it's because we're paid, and if they didn't do this, we'd all do 12-minute sets!
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Three songs, topless by the second, fully nude by the end. Unless it's really busy, we pick our own songs so anywhere from 9 - 15 minutes.
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Two songs, 3 1/2 minutes. Then we have a third song to get dressed and gather our tips, thank our tippers and hustle for dances, but we're only supposed to take 30 seconds? Sometimes girls (self included) take a full third song to finish up. Depending on how many girls we may only go up twice, but usually 4 times, sometimes more, I've never counted the most but it feels like 40 when there are only 4 girls and no one tips.
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Generally during the weekdays they do two songs (3-4 min), first song bikini/panty set, second song topless. During the weekends we can have anywhere from two to six stages open, two song rotation on each with 15 girls a night, tops. . These are the days when my legs feel like falling off.
In a ten hour shift I usually go up 7-10 times a night.
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At my first club, it was two song sets and (unless it was slow) they'd kill each around the 3:30 mark. Some times, if there weren't girls in dances, I'd be allowed to dance to one 7+ minute song in leiu of two, or even two 7+ songs if it was dead. It never fails to amuse me when a drunk customer assumes I've danced the whole 17 minutes of the mythical "real" Stairway to Heaven!
At my second regular club, it was three song sets. I know they've cut them early, but I really don't remember the circumstances. I think it might have been on busy nights? If so, that would explain my not being able to remember- I was too busy with customers to pay real attention to the music. I usually don't catch much flack from anyone about the length of the songs I pick until they start to hit the 7 minute mark; then the DJ asks me to scale it back some. Seems most of the dancers in Houston don't get bent out of shape over a 5-6 minute long song.
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scarlett_vancouver
Yup, it's time. I could do 18 1-minute songs if I so desired, but I'd be unemployed pretty soon after, lol. The usual formula is 4 4:30 songs, or 3 longer songs if you're into techno. I often have to do 5 3:30 songs because my taste tends to run to the shorter ditties...hence my love of really long 'good' songs.
Most clubs are medium anal...the DJs program out music and the digital display automatically adds the times together. Or, in some clubs they record your time on stage and your time off stage. You get fined if you're under, though that's rare- usually the DJs tell you beforehand so you can switch your music up. Some clubs are super lenient (I love you, Penthouse!). Some clubs won't allow you under 17:50. Most are OK with 17:30.
God, it's ridiculous, isn't it? Writing it all out, it seems dumb. But it's because we're paid, and if they didn't do this, we'd all do 12-minute sets!
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irispia
three songs
Also, epic necro posting, guys.
Re: Stage Set... How long??
Usually 2 song sets, from 2:30 to 4:00 mins each song depending on if the DJ is trying to rotate through girls fast or if he's run out to smoke and let the song run on.
When there's like 20+ girls, we do 1 song per stage, 3 stages.