Advanced Kinbaku with Barkas & Addie in New York City, September 26-27, 2015
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Cost:Registration opening soon (Price includes lunch on Saturday & Sunday)
Dress code:Casual/street clothes
Description:
Advanced Kinbaku with Barkas & Addie
Eric Pride and SiRoberto are hosting an advanced rope intensive with Barkas and Addie on September 26-27, 2015, in New York City.
Registration opening soon. Please check back.
We are super excited that Barkas is returning to New York City in September to teach another advanced rope intensive. This time he will be covering topics including:
Ranboo
The rope “interview”
Advanced suspensions and transitions
For more details see the schedule below.
Note: This is an advanced hands-on intensive with A LOT of tying. Participants should have previous experience with floor rope and rope suspensions, and be able to tie a 2-rope TK, a hip-harness, and a futomomo.
Barkas will also be available for private instruction during September 24th and 28th. To schedule, please contact ericprideclasses@gmail.com.
Workshop pricing:
Soon to be announced when registration is open.
Lunches and snacks are included. Space is limited, and once the event sells out, registration will be closed. Tickets are transferable but non-refundable.
Schedule
Saturday, September 26, 2015
10:00am – 10:30am: Registration and doors open
10:30am – 12:30pm: Morning session
12:30pm – 1:15pm: Lunch
1:15pm – 5:30pm: Afternoon session
5:30pm – 6:00pm: Wrap-up
Morning session: Ranboo
In 1932, the well-known artist Itoh Seyu, who is one of the key persons of modern kinbaku, published a book with the title: “BiJin Ranbu.” This means “wild dance of a beautiful woman.”
In 2011, Barkas started to develop his personal way of doing ropes, which was very stormy and overwhelming. His Sensei Osada Steve called it ranboo and since then, this style of doing ropes has become known in the world of kinbaku as “ranboo.”
Within this class, the participants get a first insight into ranboo. Some key terms of ranboo, such as proper distance and proper intensity at the proper moment are the framework to tie in this way.
Afternoon session: The rope “interview”
The interview as a metaphor of tying. The interview combines the communication discourse with the one of power relationships. To tie with a person is always an involvement with a certain power relationship, simply and at least because of one person is tying and one person gets tied. But this scene also means a nonverbal conversation between the two people tying with each other. In this mind set we can think of an interview to describe the dynamics. With the help of some ipponnawa techniques we will explore some of the more obvious and some of the more subtle references to the interview metaphor.
Sunday, September 27, 2015
10:00am – 10:30am: Doors open
10:30am – 12:30pm: Morning session
12:30pm – 1:15pm: Lunch
1:15pm – 4:30pm: Afternoon session
4:30pm – 5:00pm: Wrap-up
On Sunday we spend a whole day studying advanced rope suspensions and transitions, including:
Mata zuri (crotch rope suspension)
Yoko zuri into sakasa zuri (sideways into head down)
Variations of Hikyaku zuri (running man)
Suspensions are spectacular and very esthetical. During a rope scene that includes suspensions, a huge variety of emotions can be created. One approach to suspensions is the dynamical and transitional way of doing them. That can increase the pleasure of the model as it is always surprising. Nevertheless, it is also associated with a high risk of any kind of injuries.
Within this class we will go through some of the transitions of Osada Ryu and focus on the safe and technically correct way of tying them. We will also discuss the emotional aspects of each of the transitions.
About Barkas
One of the four licensed Osada Ryu instructors of the world and Deshi of Osada Steve Sensei, Barkas has developed his own, very specific ranboo style – a highly dynamical and stormy way of doing Kinbaku. He co-organizes the annual Viennese Rope Festival as well as the Shibari Dojo Vienna. Besides his work as a Kinbaku teacher and performer all over the world, he cooperates with different artists and arts institutions, such as the Zafraan ensemble and the Viennese Tanzquartier.
A special focus of his is the implementation of various philosophical, sociological, physical, mathematical and historical ideas into his approach to rope artistry. Intellectuality and emotionality don’t contradict each other. “To fill the techniques with life” and “to tie with people instead of tying persons” are his mottos.
