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Hot and Contextual : A Guide Through Inspirational Play

3:00 pm – 5:30 pm · LGBTQIA+ & Womên

IN-HOUSE

Quick Info

Where: main room
Format: workshop
Max. participants: as many as fit
Constellation: solo, paired, groups - all constellations welcome
Can I passively watch?: yes
Minimum knowledge: beginner level
What to bring: Ropes, any objects, items or clothes that inspires you, etc.
Accessibility notes: We can adapt to accessibility needs.
Add to calendar: Google Calendar / iCal / .ics file

If being a top can sometimes feel destabilizing (as it asks you to hold space, stay inspired, propose, and guide) this workshop explores how adaptability and a certain casualness can become strong supports in that role. This class is an invitation to mess with what surrounds us: furniture, clothing, objects, architecture.

To take hold of them, reinterpret them, stage them, creating surprise, texture, and depth within our rope sessions. This exploration will lead us to take advantage of the context in order to serve the scene in the best ways we can and to realize that we don’t need fancy gear to create the hottest context for tying.

Facilitator

Juliette (she/her)

Juliette discovered shibari in 2016. Her desire to tie emerged quickly as a need to translate the emotions and sensations she experienced in rope. Influenced by aikido and contact improvisation dance, she places the body at the center of her approach, as a medium of transmission. Juliette has trained with many shibari teachers, each contributing to her understanding through different techniques an...

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Olive

Olive discovered shibari as a rope bottom in 2019. They have been practicing yoga for around ten years and teaching it since 2022. Fascinated by the effects of movement on emotions, identity, and self-perception, they naturally bring these two practices together in their personal work. With curiosity, they explores this hybrid space as a way to deepen their connection to their own body, sensory ex...

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