Addie(she/her)

Addie

Smiling person with short red hair indoors

Addie is a Vancouver-based rope educators who teach and perform world-wide. Addie is a switch and self-suspension enthusiast. She organizes regular workshops on dynamic self-suspension and versatile education both, for beginners and technically advanced. When co-teaching, she focuses on bottoming information and discourse.

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    • Virtual

    Intro to Self-Suspension

    4:00 pm – 6:00 pm CEST · Facilitator: Addie

    Self suspension presents a different set of challenges and rewards than partner suspension. The ability to push, play, experiment, and tailor is countered by different leverage, drains on strength and stamina, challenging rope handling techniques, and a compromised ability to respond to the unexpected. This class starts with the basics of self suspension, from line...

    Virtual

    Differential Geometry in Rope Bndage

    6:15 pm – 8:15 pm CEST · Facilitator: Georg Barkas, Addie, Georg Barkas, Addie

    Rope Bondage is often seen only through one particular lens but what happens if we are looking for similarities in completely different fields? Higher mathematics doesn't seem to have anything in common with rope but a quick look offers a vast variety of tools helpful for rope bondage as it is basically nothing else than...

    • Barkas & Addie: The City of Kinbaku Intensive

    3:00 pm – 10:00 pm CET · Facilitator: Georg Barkas, Addie, Georg Barkas, Addie

    A poetic journey to and through Barkas’ metaphorical city of Kinbaku. Barkas and Addie guide participants through some of the many meanings with which rope can be imbued. We discuss communication via ropes, movement with ropes, and space in the context of ropes. This journey includes very simple techniques and more elaborate ones alike. Participants...

    Movement in the City of Kinbaku

    8:00 pm – 10:00 pm CET · Facilitator: Georg Barkas, Addie, Georg Barkas, Addie

      In Barkas’ approach to rope, what one does with rope is not as important as knowing how or why one does it. In the end, the aim is to move each other’s hearts. Thus, it seems almost obvious to make movement a big part of a rope scene. In Barkas’ City of Kinbaku, there...