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An Evening with Murasaki Haruan & Rokujo Kurei

8:00 pm – 11:00 pm · LGBTQIA+ & Womên
IN-HOUSE

Quick Info

Where
main room
Format
discussion
Max. participants
as many as fit
Constellation
solo, paired, groups - all constellations welcome
Minimum knowledge
-
Accessibility notes
We offer spaces to sit on the floor as well as on chairs

We are very happy to welcome Murasaki Haruan and Rokujo Kurei all the way from Japan at Queerope Berlin 2026.

On this evening, we will be screening BOUND (Jean-Armand Bougrelle, FRA, 2021), a documentary about female rope practitioners in Japan, starring Murasaki Haruan. After the screening, Andrea Rimon will lead a Q&A with both Murasaki Haruan and her current student and active pro-domme Rokujo Kurei about their working with rope, their approaches to tying in general as well as their specific continuation of Yukimura style in the Murasaki lineage.

Your curious questions are encouraged.

Facilitator

Person in traditional attire with red rope.

Murasaki Haruan (she/her)

Official Successor of Yukimura-ryu Kinbaku / Founder, Grace Rope Lab Murasaki began her career as a professional Mistress in 2002. Through that work, she encountered her mentor Yukimura Haruki and began studying under him in 2003, honing her skills as his on-set assistant during film productions. In 2014, she became the first Japanese person and first woman to be certified as “Yukimura-ryu Nawaaso...

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Woman in kimono beside bound person indoors

Rokujo Kurei (she/her)

Rokujo Kurei has worked as a professional Mistress in Japan for nearly 20 years. Seeking a deeper understanding of rope, she began studying Yukimura-ryu under Murasaki Haruan seven years ago. From the moment she first experienced Murasaki-san’s rope, she felt she had found what she had been searching for. For Rokujo Kurei, rope is not about performance. It is a way of communicating, building trust...

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Andrea Rimon (she/her)

Andrea Rimon is an artist and educator focused on movement, culture, and touch.insta: @andrearimon

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