“I'm not so interested in how they move as in what moves them.” ― Pina Bausch

This full weekend workshop will look at how to use movement and handling to create fluid, dynamic and expressive rope scenes on the ground. 

The workshop will cover:

• Body manipulation and body handling
• Tips and tricks for efficient and fluid rope handling
• One-rope, ichinawa style techniques
• Tying structural harnesses with movement
• How to fluidly move between shapes on the ground
• Non-verbal communication through movement and breath
• How movement quality affects emotion and intention

About the facilitators

Burgundy Rose and Spring Tide started tying together at Anatomie Studio in 2016 and are now partners in rope, and in life.

Burgundy Rose works in the performing arts, and this influences her approach to ropes and style. Dynamic, playful and attentive, she is endlessly curious about people and thrives on the intensities, physical and psychological, that rope can bring out. Spring Tide’s relationship with rope tends to be either passive and enduring suffering or active, dynamic and co-creative.

Burgundy Rose has recently completed the second year of the BA Circus Arts and Physical Theatre programme at Circomedia. In 2019 she was awarded a ‘Developing Your Creative Practice’ grant from Arts Council England to explore rope, dance and physical theatre, training with Jasmin Vardimon Dance Theatre Company and Rope Artist Nicolas Yoroi in Brussels.

The pair have learnt from a wide range of national and international rope educators and are currently inspired by blending the intensity and aesthetics of ‘traditional’ Japanese Shibari with a more movement-based and deconstructed ‘contemporary’ style.

Their shibari teaching, performances and life modelling have taken them to London, Manchester, Bristol, Berlin, Prague, Athens and Portland (USA). They currently live in Bristol, where they run rope workshops and shibari life modelling sessions.

Prerequisites

Riggers need to be able to tie a solid single column tie, and both participants should be prepared to be physically close to each other. You will get more out of this class if you know how to tie a structural harness of your preference (e.g. takate kote, hishi, etc) and have a working knowledge of basic frictions.