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Georg Barkas
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Poetics of rope bondage takes the participants on a journey through the contexts of tying and how we can use them to improve our tying as well as our understanding of tying. In a narrative, specifically created by Barkas for a new pedagogy of rope, concepts like aesthetics, patterns, suspensions, and floorwork are deconstructed through...
Barkas and Addie usually teach with the goal of separating the practice of rope from inherent expectations or assumptions of sexual contact. But that does not mean that they do not practice and enjoy sexual rope as well! This 3-part-workshop-series will focus on rope techniques for sex and ideas on how to sexualize ropes....
Arms-behind-the-back positions are common in bondage but many people find them difficult to get into or uncomfortable to maintain for a number of reasons: tight shoulders, rotator cuff issues, muscle or fat density, hypermobility, spine or shoulder alignment, blood flow, etc. This class explores two shoulder-friendly techniques for bringing the arms behind the back, working...
Urawaza (裏技) are the techniques in the back, the ones that an outside observer barely notices, those secret tricks. Urawaza applied to Kinbaku in the proper way can have an immense effect on the person in ropes. They are at the intersection between tying skills and communication techniques. They are the reason why it...
The Takate Kote, short just TK, and its variations is one of the most tied structured patterns in the rope world. No matter if hands in the front or in the back, if you tie a stemless TK or one with a stem, whether you have Kannukis or not, the TK is for sure...
While a lot of thought and energy and practice and so on and so forth can be put into tying, we are also all facing challenges in our everyday lives that are less and less bearable. Ropes can also be used to forget about all that shit out there, all the fascism, the economy, the...
Next year will mark 10 years since Archaeology of Personalities was published. It introduced the concept of "the interview" as a metaphor in rope bondage to a wider audience and is still the only book that discusses rope bondage through the lens of western philosophical tradition. How do we think about rope today, compared to...
In-House
Technically A Suspension
This is a class in opposition to the often high pressures and demands of suspension, where the goal is to find ways to leave the ground without adding complication, physical strain, or pretentiousness. Perhaps we get off the ground for a moment, or a cm, or partly supported on a body/furniture, or using a pulley,...
In-House
Intimate Session: Addie & Barkas
This series allows rope facilitators to show participants how they approach intimate sessions, away from modes of teaching or performing. Come and witness an improvised intimate moment amongst people who do rope (pretty well). We will blur the lines of the private and the public, the curated and the improvised. After the session, there is...
In-House
The Single! The Column! The Tie!
Single column ties are the first structure most people learn, the starting point to many ties, the foundation of suspension lines, one of the most pervasive elements of rope play… yet they are hardly ever the centre of teaching attention. This class approaches single columns from a variety of directions - finger techniques to tie...
In-House
Addie & Barkas: Experimental Kinbaku
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,...
Virtual
Architectures of Kinbaku
Kinbaku scenes are built first and foremost around people. But also around the rope structure as well as the position and last but not least, the purpose of the scene. If we look at tying from the perspective of how they are constructed and if we acknowledge that everyone has their own view on tying,...