Gravity Is The Enemy, My Friend- Predicament Play with TieMeTightly

Doors open: 6:30pm

Gravity Is The Enemy, My Friend- Predicament Play

We play with bodies and rope, let’s add to the mixture and play with elevation and gravity. Adding even one upline offers profound possibilities to push and pull, enhance tension and begin the ascent from the floor play into the air. Predicaments are ultimately psychological edgeplay. The work of creating a “good” predicament is to place a person between conflicting options, neither of which offer a solution to the struggle. “Stuck between a rock and a hard place” as we say. As we slowly chisel away at someone’s sense of security and balance, we work with tension and gravity to torment the mind and the body.  

We will be building sustainable harnesses for upper and lower body and work through a variety of exercises focusing on the formation and use of secure uplines to build partial suspensions. Rather than seeing this as a step towards suspension, we will be exploring the space in between ground and air. 

• Introduction to Uplines: Multiple hitching styles, securing to bamboo, tying off on the way up, multiple lock off styles.  
• Body handling techniques employing up-lines

• Anatomical considerations, nerve pathways and impingement, circulation impairment, breath restriction and risk assessment of injury

Rigger prerequisites: experience following patterns and building harnesses, proficient upline building and management, confident in rope communication skills, knowledge of safety and risk in rope.

Bottom prerequisites: confident in-rope communication skills, knowledge of safety and risk in rope, confident ability to monitor and communicate signs of nerve compression.

About the educator:
William (they/she) is a queer artist, designer and builder based in Brooklyn, New York; a dominant, a pervert, a rope bondage enthusiast, a sadist, and the founder of Temple New York. 
William has been a student of Shibari since meeting Midori in 2004.  Since then they have had the honor of learning from many teachers, most notably with Chiaki(Japan) and KissMeDeadlyDoll (New York) focusing primarily on Naka style and seme-nawa.  
Since the founding of Temple New York in 2019,  William has been working as a community organizer, educator, and professional Dominant. They combine their experiences in theater, performing arts and their degrees in fine art to build worlds of the imagination within venues like Temple and within private and performance spaces.  
They has tied with internationally acclaimed Shibari artist Hajime Kinoko for their New York performance art installations and have presented at Dark Odyssey, Dances of Vice and Torture Garden. William’s work has been published in Kinbaku Society Berlin, Spunk Magazine, Petite Mort Magazine and Subspace Magazine.

Tickets are non-refundable, as once they’re sold we often have a waiting list and are happy to help contact those guests to assist with reselling where possible🎟️💛. For our regularly occurring classes, we’re also very happy to rebook your ticket for a different date when needed 📅✨