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 travelling 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 Polecats Instructor Qualified for Pole level 1 and 2, XPERT certified for Pole, Spinny Pole and Aerial Hoop. She has also finished her intensive workshop with Emily Barbers at MID Air Circus for Aerial Hoop and Silks.

Outside the studio she is a wife and mother to 4 lovely children. She also works as an Operations Director in a leading Customer Management Company.

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.

Most recent accomplishment in fitness is in Bodybuilding placing 4th in our IFBB Nationals held September 27, 2021 for Fit Model Category. 

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.

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.