FEB

A Funny Approach to Semenawa, a Performance.

18. February 2024, 8:30 pm – 10:30 pm

Benoît and Noémie will perform a scene including their favorite ingredients: laugh and struggle.
A journey from a playful and dynamic harness building to a powerless and scary situation. With all of Benoît’s abilities to play with rhythms and energies to create surprise and apprehension.
For this queerope, we will experiment with music and video, to get the most out of the online setup we have to use.

Content Warning: Rope pressure on non-visible genitalia, heavy breathplay, neck rope.

Details:

Format: performance

Minimum Knowledge Level: –

What to Bring: –

Solo or Partnered: any constellation

Class recording: yes

This class will be recorded (only the facilitator, not the participants) and is available for ticket holders for 30 days after the event.

Facilitator

Noémie Knot_NiDi (she/her)

Noémie is a rope model from Paris, teaching alongside Benoit and caring a lot about highlighting the model perspective during rope classes. Her medical practitioner background is helping her understand the various dimensions at play during a rope session, and she loves to create a space where models can try to learn what is good for them. Her main motive is to find the most suitable harnesses, so ...

Learn More

Benoît Descordes (she/her)

Benoît Descordes is a nonbinary switch from Paris, France. She was lucky enough to begin her rope education in 2014 when various teachers started coming to Paris from all over the world which offered her a large technical skills, and a view on many different styles. Now, almost ten years later, her style is a kind of semenawa mixing playful predicaments and slow buildings of torturous ropes. Her c...

Learn More