Daruma is a Berlin based shibari space that offers shibari classes and community events, and aims to foster a high level of technical skill in an approachable learning atmosphere.
Daruma is a Berlin based shibari space that offers shibari classes and community events, and aims to foster a high level of technical skill in an approachable learning atmosphere.
with Gestalta
You don’t need complex suspensions or advanced techniques to create powerful, emotionally rich rope scenes. This workshop is all about exploring what’s possible on the ground - with a focus on simplicity, movement, and sensuality.
Performed by Gestalta and Kat Orcutt, with live music by Alex Hawthorn.
Shibari performance often explores intimate and complex dynamics between two people, shared in front of an audience. In “Mirror Stage”, Gestalta sculpts an ever-shifting relationship to self as something simultaneously familiar and alien: reflected in the rope, the tied body, and the stage itself.
In this workshop, we focus on fast and effective ways to restrain your partner using minimal rope. The goal is to create ties that can serve both as a foundation for further development within a rope session and, on their own, as the perfect basis for a wide variety of play
In this one day workshop we will dig into the Hashira experience even without the possibility to tie on a pole. Over the course of this workshop, you will learn how to rig bamboo safely as a vertical suspension point, including the setup of a special, solid hardpoint that allows secure tying onto a moving object.
with Ztella
Tying with people bigger than ourselves – or getting tied by people smaller who might not be able to move us easily – can feel daunting. This workshop gives you practical tools to tie confidently with significant size or strength differences. While designed for smaller riggers and bigger bottoms, these principles of leverage and body mechanics are useful for anyone who wants to tie more sustainably and efficiently, regardless of your size.
with Stefano Taiuti
“The Spiritual Mechanism” is a unique approach to dance and self discovery that integrates western movement analyses focusing on the visible, and Butoh to explore the invisible, the subtle, what is behind the movement and generates it.
with A-Nicolas (formerly Yoroï Nicolas)
Breathe. Shift your balance. Walk, weave, occupy the space—and disappear. Now, do it all with your partner, a rope, and the magic of movement. In this workshop, we’ll transform into an organic system: unpredictable yet beautifully organised, learning to move freely and naturally within the ropes.
Elemental Forces: Explore how Earth, Water, Fire, Air, and Ether enhance the structure, mood, and intention of rope scenes on the floor and in the air.
A movement framework to understand and build narrative within rope scenes via rope handling, harnesses and transitions.
With Kirigami & Tenshiko
Approaching traditional semenawa from a practical and theoretical point of view, understanding the iconic patterns of the style, and the philosophy behind them.
