Full Time Faculty

Ira is the founder and sole owner of Chrome Divas Pole Dance & Fitness studio. She took ballet, belly dancing and cheer dancing as a child but moved to mix martial arts later as an adult.

Her first experience on the pole was in 2010 and next thing she knew she was traveling around the globe to train and take workshops with top pole athletes like Lou Landers, Melody, Carli Hunter, Amy Hazel, Justine Mc Lucas, Polina Ginger, etc. Her love for pole expanded to other apparatuses like Aerial Hoop, Silks and Exotic dance.   

Upon opening her studio, she created and produced the first International Exotic Pole Dance Battle in the Philippines running for 3 years. This competition is graced by  local and international competitors. Judged by Eva Bembo, Andre, Melody, Jamaica Jornacion, Christina Dy, Daria Che, Vika, Tessa Yung, Lance Santiago and Nina Bee.

Ira believes that it is not what we can do but how we do it on any aerial equipment or dance style we choose.   

She is:

1. Polecats Instructor Qualified for Pole level 1 and 2

2. XPERT certified for Pole, Spinny Pole and Aerial Hoop. 

3.  MID-Air Circus (Emily Barbers) Intensives for Aerial Hoop and Silks.

4. International Sports Science Association (ISSA) Certified for Nutrition, Personal Training, Strength & Conditioning & Bodybuilding - 2023

5. CPR/AED Certified 2023

5. Certified Professional Life Coach - Transformation Academy 2023

Outside the studio she is a wife and mother to 4 lovely children. She has been a Senior Leader in the BPO Industry for 20 years. 

She has been competing internationally in battles like Floorplay in Australia, Dance Filthy UK and the Exotic Pole Fest in Greece. She is the recent Semi-Pro Champion for Floorplay Scotland 2018. Her work has always been regularly re-posted by pole and dance groups in social media.

Accomplishments in bodybuilding fitness:

4th in our IFBB Nationals Fit Model Category 2021

3rd Place IFBB Grand Prix Masters Bikini 2022

1st/2nd/3rd WFF Fit Model Categories 2022

Most recent win is for Pole Sport Organization Taurus Cyber Competition - Floorworks & Low Flow Champion (May 2023).

Email : ira@chromedivasmanila.com

Maan Ilustre has always been dancing ever since she was a little girl. She was forced to put her love for dance in the back seat to focus on her studies and consequently, her career after college. 

She had the opportunity to take up her first love as a form of fitness. In 2013, after her resignation from the company she ran for 13 years, she decided to take a break and took ballet, jazz, contemporary ballet and pole dance. Soon there after she developed an undying love for aerial arts having enjoyed pole dance and aerial hoops. In 2016 she took the XPert Certification to teach Spinny pole and aerial hoops.

Today, she enjoys balancing her work, her passion for writing as editor in chief of juan.com.ph, and aerial and exotic dance to feed her soul.

Email: maan@chromedivasmanila.com

Nuria is the youngest and most flexible teacher  of Chrome Divas. She has always been an athlete with minimal dance background. She started her aerial journey in January 2016. Her mother got her to try it and now they are a mother-daughter tandem. She fell in love with aerial Lyra/hoops because of how challenging and unique it is. She is the reigning Amateur Aerial Hoop Champion of Sultry 2019. 

She is currently our Aerial Hoop Teacher for our in studio classes and training in other apparatus like Pole and Silks.

Email: nuria@chromedivasmanila.com