RopeFest Peterburg 2026
RopeFest Peterburg 2026 runs 1–3 May in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
2020s slice of the RopeFest event family, now covering current Moscow / RFMSK23 traces, a 2022 Saint Petersburg / Skorokhod photo-archive trace and the revived RopeFest Peterburg 2026 branch. The official Moscow site frames the 2023 edition as an international shibari festival and lists current Moscow-scene participants and teachers including Nick Freerider, Zevsa and Poryadnov, while Kommersant Photo preserves a May 2022 RopeFest show-program trace at Skorokhod and the official Peterburg site documents XIII RopeFest on May 1-3 2026 in Saint Petersburg with a large main-stage, small-stage, workshop and fair program. This decade slice prevents contemporary Moscow, Saint Petersburg and regional Russian performers from visually collapsing into the 2010s founding festival entry.
Line-up
Programme
Festival format
- Master classes, seminars, fair, peer rope and evening shibari show
- Evening show runs 17:00-23:00
Main stage
Small stage
- Dmitriy Arachnid, Aram Oganezov, Aleksandr Shambler, Ivan Musicf1sh, Alex Bombarda, Aleksandra Bor, Yakov KINKKNIGHT and Igor Ingvar
Fair
- RopeFest fair runs through all three festival days