Another photo session …
Photographer: Katja Cat
Produced by: Institute Sommer
Tam – Kitty – Dasniya
Greeeen!
Another session by Bondage Family
Tying: Tamandua; model: Dasniya; photos: Frances d’ath
SHIBARI WORKSHOPS IN June
1. SHIBARI TECHNIQUE MORNING CLASSES
Every Tuesday: June 7,14 & 28, 2016 (not on the 25th!)
10am-12pm
Costs: 20 Euro per person
10 class card 160 €
@ Uferhallen Kulturwerkstatt – Wedding.
The workshop focusses on traditional Shibari technique. Inspired by my teachers Osada Steve, Kamijoo Saki, Arisue Go, Hourai Kasumi or Lun Ario. We start with the basics and security principles. Learning initial knots and floor work patterns with a partner. When these principles are set, we approach complex figures and suspension technique step by step.
The workshop focusses on traditional Shibari technique. Inspired by Osada Steve, Kamijoo Saki, Arisue Go, Hourai Kasumi or Lun Ario. We start with the basics and security principles. Learning initial knots and floor work patterns with a partner. When these principles are set, we approach more complex figures and suspension technique step by step.
Besides learning the knots, qualitative aspects play a great role as well. How do I guide the rope in a sensual way, how can my partner, or I, travel through blissful states of rope drunkenness?
To arrive there, it requires some training for both sides, ..softly gently catchee monkey.
Applying the three principles: the classical aesthetic, the sensual effect and a non-harming technique and philosophy, is the goal. They fuse the visual, tactile, and playful level into an adventurous ritual.
Girls girls, boys girls, non boys/girl, cis people everybody is welcome as long as you respect the group!
You don’t need to come with a partner. There always are other solo participants, or I jump in.
Please bring training-/comfortable pants. If you have own ropes, otherwise we provide them.
2. YOGA & SHIBARI
Wednesday, June 1st & 29th, 2016 at 6pm – 10pm
Costs: 40 Euro per person (social price 30 Euro)
Please register beforehand/ Send an SMS!
General Description: in English and German.
18 – 19 h yoga warm up
19 – 19.30 pause
19.30 – 21 shibari/technical input
21- 22 h open space to play and exchange ideas or just watching.
3. STAGING SHIBARI
July 1st
7-11 pm
Costs: 40 Euro per person (social price 30 Euro)
Our performance baby ‘Shibari Express’ is growing, and we want to focus more on performance ideas as part of the workshop, than on basic rope technique. So previous knowledge is useful but not mandatory. If you prefer to watch, we will always need free hands to hold a light, fog machine or navigate a camera…
We want to invite you to brainstorm with us, ideas or dramaturgy and how to try those on a small scale. You could also bring an instrument, books or other devices, which you always have wanted to tie up or perform with.
The scenes that we create explore theatre tools and can be happening-like, installations or movement based/choreographies. It’s an experiment to involve poetic thoughts around rope work, and to have an open space situation to try Shibari for the stage. There will always be someone of our team, or other free floating participants to support you, unless you want to make a solo :)
Sounds all more challenging than it is..its about searching new forms and having fun!
All workshops take place:
At Teatris/Alte Kantine or in our ‘Mini- Dojo’. Both locations are at
Uferhallen Kulturwerkstatt in Wedding. Staircase B/C, Uferstraße 8-11, 13357 Berlin
U8 Pankstr/U9 Osloerstr
Please call when you are in the court yard, in case you don’t find it, or the door is locked:
+ 49 174 393 70 49.
PLEASE REGISTER BEFOREHAND, THAN WE SEND YOU THE DETAILS, THANKS!
Inside ropes
Nice how things return. After being on the rigging side for so many years, I enjoyed being solidly tied yesterday. Or is it actually the first time? ..its different from before somehow. The bamboo gave me a slightly torturous strech. But all in all it was a great tie. Thanks Tam for this nice moment and beautiful rope work!
Witch dance
Some twenties expressionist dance. Combining shibari and butoh. Thanks Sarah for the lovely face paint!
3 Shibari Workshops in May
1. SHIBARI TECHNIQUE MORNING CLASSES
Every Tuesday: 3, 10, 17, 24, 31 May, and June 7th
10am – 12 pm
Costs: 20 Euro per person
10 class card 160 €
The workshop focusses on traditional Shibari technique. Inspired by Osada Steve, Kamijoo Saki, Arisue Go, Hourai Kasumi or Lun Ario. We start with the basics and security principles. Learning initial knots and floor work patterns with a partner. When these principles are set, we approach more complex figures and suspension technique step by step.
Besides learning the knots, qualitative aspects play a great role as well. How do I guide the rope in a sensual way, how can my partner, or I, travel through blissful states of rope drunkenness?
To arrive there, it requires some training for both sides, ..softly gently catchee monkey.
Applying the three principles: the classical aesthetic, the sensual effect and a non-harming technique and philosophy, is the goal. They fuse the visual, tactile, and playful level into an adventurous ritual.
Girls girls, boys girls, non boys/girl, cis people everybody is welcome as long as you respect the group!
You don’t need to come with a partner. There always are other solo participants, or I jump in.
Please bring training-/comfortable pants. If you have own ropes, otherwise we provide them.
2. YOGA & SHIBARI
25th May, Wednesday
6 – 10 pm
Costs: 40 Euro per person
GENERAL DESCRIPTION: English + GERMAN
18 – 19 h yoga warm up
19 – 19.30 pause
19.30 – 21 shibari/technical input
21- 22 h open space to play and exchange ideas or just watching.
3. STAGING SHIBARI
May 27
7-11 pm
Costs: 40 Euro per person (social price 30 Euro)
Our performance baby ‘Shibari Express’ is growing, and we want to focus more on performance ideas as part of the workshop, than on basic rope technique. So previous knowledge is useful but not mandatory. If you prefer to watch, we will always need free hands to hold a light, fog machine or navigate a camera…
We want to invite you to brainstorm with us, ideas or dramaturgy and how to try those on a small scale. You could also bring an instrument, books or other devices, which you always have wanted to tie up or perform with.
The scenes that we create explore theatre tools and can be happening-like, installations or movement based/choreographies. It’s an experiment to involve poetic thoughts around rope work, and to have an open space situation to try Shibari for the stage. There will always be someone of our team, or other free floating participants to support you, unless you want to make a solo :)
Sounds all more challenging than it is..its about searching new forms and having fun!
All workshops take place:
At Teatris/Alte Kantine or in our ‘Mini- Dojo’. Both locations are at
Uferhallen Kulturwerkstatt in Wedding. Staircase B/C, Uferstraße 8-11, 13357 Berlin
U8 Pankstr/U9 Osloerstr
Please call when you are in the court yard, in case you don’t find it, or the door is locked:
+ 49 174 393 70 49.
PLEASE REGISTER BEFOREHAND, THAN WE SEND YOU THE DETAILS, THANKS!
4RUDE – crime and punishment
Breaking new soil with butoh last week. I attended a one week workshop lead by Mako and Hikaro Inagawa at Tatwerk. It was an ambitious enterprise,
which worked in the end :)
Nine participants, singers, performers, a care giver and philologist, eagerly absorbed the japanese performance tools, and 4RUDE‘s approach. Trying hard to make faces like rotten cows, breaking branches, or repeating spider walk over and over. It gave us a good muscle hangover!
About two month ago I started taking butoh classes. Looking for a change in my body and different imagery to dance from. I am discovering this, but allready it’s a beautiful contrast to the airborne ballet. Not striving for the sky, but connecting with the soil, and giving topics around death for example a dancy form. Its also just fun, and maybe a return to expressionist dance.
The images we worked with are often short stories, so called Butoh-fu. A kind of vocabulary to generate creative mind states. From which than the physical expression comes. For example a room full of pollen, sneezing faces or a grave keeper calming a pack of barking dogs. Or a crayon, with a childish face, sort of asking what do I draw today?
All this to tell Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment. (Only part I, part II is following in November.)
In Hikaru’s work, there is seldomly one to one illustration of the narrative. This I already liked in their last piece CELLuLOID. Having a nice level of abstraction, and despite slow motion, an ongoing, dense concentration all the way through.
So, often there is stillness on the body surface, but internally we crossed the desert without water..
2 Performances in April
1. Sündenstadt – Das Helmi
Join me next week end in the puppet theatre mayhem of Frank Miller’s Sin City!
By das Helmi
April 15th Friday & 16th Saturday
At: 7 pm Sündenstadt 1 (with me ;)
At: 9 pm Sündenstadt 2
Ballhaus Ost
Pappelallee 15,
Prenzlauer Berg
2. Crime and Punishment
A Butoh performance by 4RUDE and workshop participants (including me! ;)
April 17th, Sunday at 8pm
Tatwerk Berlin
Hasenheide 9
Gewerbehof – 2. Hinterhof, Aufgang 1, 3. OG
U7 & U8 Hermannplatz
WORKSHOPS IN APRIL
1. SHIBARI TECHNIQUE MORNING CLASSES
At: 10 -12 am
Tuesday 19 & 26 April
3, 10, 17, 24, 31 May
7 & 14 June
Costs: 20 Euro per person
10 class card 160 €
In Uferhallen Kulturwerkstatt in Wedding. Staircase b, Uferstraße 8-11, 13357 Berlin
U8 Pankstr/U9 Osloerstr
Please call when you are in the court yard, in case you don’t find it, or the door is locked:
+ 49 174 393 70 49.
PLEASE REGISTER BEFOREHAND!
GENERAL DESCRIPTION:
The workshop focusses on traditional Shibari technique. Inspired by Osada Steve, Kamijoo Saki, Arisue Go, Hourai Kasumi or Lun Ario. We start with the basics and security principles. Learning initial knots and floor work patterns with a partner. When these principles are set, we approach more complex figures and suspension technique step by step.
Besides learning the knots, qualitative aspects play a great role as well. How do I guide the rope in a sensual way, how can my partner, or I, travel through blissful states of rope drunkenness?
To arrive there, it requires some training for both sides, ..softly softly catchee monkey.
Applying the three principles: the classical aesthetic, the sensual effect and a non-harming technique and philosophy, is the goal. They fuse the visual, tactile, and playful level into an adventurous ritual.
Girls girls, boys girls, non boys/girl, cis people everybody is welcome as long as you respect the group!
You don’t need to come with a partner. There always are other solo participants, or I jump in.
Please bring training-/comfortable pants. If you have own ropes, otherwise we provide them.
2. YOGA & SHIBARI
20th April, Wednesday
6 – 10 pm
Costs: 40 Euro per person (social price 30 Euro)
At Teatris/Alte Kantine or in our ‘Mini- Dojo’. Both locations are at:
Uferhallen Kulturwerkstatt in Wedding. Staircase b/c, Uferstraße 8-11, 13357 Berlin
U8 Pankstr/U9 Osloerstr
Please call when you are in the court yard, in case you don’t find it, or the door is locked:
+ 49 174 393 70 49.
PLEASE REGISTER BEFOREHAND, THAN WE SEND YOU THE DETAILS!
GENERAL DESCRIPTION: English + GERMAN
18 – 19 h yoga warm up
19 – 19.30 pause
19.30 – 21 shibari/technical input
21- 22 h open space to play and exchange ideas or just watching.
3. STAGING SHIBARI
31st March, Thursday Postponed to May 6th!!
7-11 pm
Costs: 40 Euro per person (social price 30 Euro)
At Teatris/Alte Kantine or in our ‘Mini- Dojo’. Both locations are at
Uferhallen Kulturwerkstatt in Wedding. Staircase b/c, Uferstraße 8-11, 13357 Berlin
U8 Pankstr/U9 Osloerstr
Please call when you are in the court yard, in case you don’t find it, or the door is locked:
+ 49 174 393 70 49.
PLEASE REGISTER BEFOREHAND, THAN WE SEND YOU THE DETAILS.
Our performance baby ‘Shibari Express’ is growing, and we want to focus more on performance ideas as part of the workshop, than on basic rope technique. So previous knowledge is useful but not mandatory. If you prefer to watch, we will always need free hands to hold a light, fog machine or navigate a camera…
We want to invite you to brainstorm with us, ideas or dramaturgy and how to try those on a small scale. You could also bring an instrument, books or other devices, which you always have wanted to tie up or perform with.
The scenes that we create explore theatre tools and can be happening-like, installations or movement based/choreographies. It’s an experiment to involve poetic thoughts around rope work, and to have an open space situation to try Shibari for the stage. There will always be someone of our team, or other free floating participants to support you, unless you want to make a solo :)
Sounds all more challenging than it is..its about searching new forms and having fun!
Staging Shibari #2
The second round of staging shibari workshop went a step further. Mainly I was interested in working with white face colour, somewhat butoh inspired, and trying new technical equipment. We now have a little studio with light control and black backdrop.
The group was smaller, 6 people, mostly new to shibari, some bold some shy, but in general calm, concentrated vibes were coming from the table scene.
