Benoît Descordes(she/her)

Benoît Descordes

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 comfort zone as a teacher is to go into deep geeky technical stuff, and sometimes dig into beyond ropes topics, like consent strategies, session dynamics, or the reasons we do what we do. For more than a year now, she teaches with Noémie and together they both try to give space and time for the model perspective to be shared.

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    • TK for Everyone ?

    8:30 pm – 10:30 pm CET · Facilitator: Noémie Knot_NiDi, Benoît Descordes

    This workshop will start with picking some specific needs from the participants regarding difficulties with the TK. Through Benoît's technical knowledge and Noémie's awareness of anatomy, we will try to go through various tips and variations and harness buildings to give everyone the keys to create their own experiments and find adaptations and solutions. The...

    A Funny Approach to Semenawa, a Performance.

    8:30 pm – 10:30 pm CET · Facilitator: Noémie Knot_NiDi, Benoît Descordes

    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,...

    • Suspend it all at once!

    4:00 pm – 6:00 pm CET · Facilitator: Noémie Knot_NiDi, Benoît Descordes

    Sometimes suspension is a challenge: the model is heavier than the rigger, adrenaline is an obstacle to having fun, the time needed to unlock the lines and go down is scary, and having so many things to take care of... During this workshop we will show you a way to create the pattern for the...

    A Funny Way to Semenawa : A Performance

    6:15 pm – 8:15 pm CET · Facilitator: Noémie Knot_NiDi, Benoît Descordes

    A performance showing our way to tie together : yes the technic, yes the challenging ties, yes the pain or discomfort, but also the laugh and the tenderness.   Details: Format: Performance Minimum Knowledge Level: – What to Bring: – Solo or Partnered: Solo Class recording: Yes This class will be recorded (only the facilitator,...