For Addie and Barkas experimental kinbaku means exploring ways of tying with each other that don’t rely on cliches of tradition, sexuality, or psychology.
In this weekend intensive, we will develop different approaches to Kinbaku by stepping into a dialogue with other forms of interpersonal interaction. We will implement contexts of intimacy, communication, power, art, movement, and politics into our practice of tying and experiment with an arrangement of techniques that allows us to learn more and different things about each other.
This workshop is following an “all levels” approach, which means that we encourage practitioners at any stage of their learning to participate. Switching absolutely welcome but for time reasons, not every exercise can be done by both.
Note: Participants of this workshop automatically have free entry our performance evening INTIMATE SESSIONS that includes a session with Addie and Barkas.
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