Alive Ropes
Alive Ropes is a Czech rigger.
Era: 2020s
RIGGER · PHOTOGRAPHER · TEACHER · ORGANISER
Prague-based rigger, photographer, martial-arts / self-defence instructor and rope educator working publicly as Alive Ropes. His official Alive page identifies Alive Ropes as the founder and operator of Alive Kinbaku Dojo, an event organizer, the main teacher for the Bound Bodies Architect beginner course and a teacher for evening and weekend thematic workshops. The same public biography says shibari first caught his attention as a photographer in 2010 and that he began active tying about nine years later after workshops, then continued through private lessons and Czech / foreign workshop study. AKD and ShibariRigger sources place him as the organizer / realization-team lead of Alive Kinbaku Festival / Alive Onawa Matsuri, with workshop, photography and teacher context in the 2025-2026 editions. Instagram profile describes Alive Ropes as a kinbaku rigger, martial-arts instructor and photographer and links the separate Alive Photo route.
Official links
Sources
- Alive Kinbaku Dojo: Alive Ropes profile catalogue record
- Alive Kinbaku Dojo contact page catalogue record
- Instagram: Alive Ropes / @alive.ropes.2 catalogue record
- Instagram: Alive Photo / @alive.photo_ catalogue record
- Alive Kinbaku Dojo: Alive Kinbaku Festival - zari 2026 catalogue record
- ShibariRigger.cz: Alive Onawa Matsuri / Alive Kinbaku Festival catalogue record
- Alive Kinbaku Dojo about page catalogue record
- Instagram: Myu / @myu_blay catalogue record
Collaborators: Myu.
Associated venues, magazines, films and performances: Alive Kinbaku Dojo.