Kai Navarro
Kai Navarro is a rigger.
Era: 2010s
RIGGER · TEACHER · ORGANIZER
Costa Rican rigger, rope educator, organizer and editor active in the EscenaCR orbit since the early 2010s. Public MsC Worldwide presenter bios identify `Master Kai` as active in community from 2012, co-director of EscenaCR and editor of its e-magazine from 2013, a shibari instructor in the rope community later known as `Sinistra`, creator of `Sinistra` as a `nawakai` in 2017, MAsT San José director from 2019 and organizer of monthly `Shibari Live Shows` from 2022; the 2026 presenter page separately lists him as director at Sinistra (Nawakai). Additional public traces connect Kai Navarro / Rigger Kai to EscenaCR rope education through a 2022 Genially presentation on Japanese shibari aesthetics, older EscenaCR WordPress translation/editorial work around Yukimura material, the Rigger Kai Notion blog, and the current Aethy `Rigger Kai` profile. The Aethy profile frames him as an EscenaCR director, Latin American / MsC presenter and rope performer, while surfacing Spanish translation / lesson material, peer-rope, monthly Japanese-style shibari / kinbaku workshop and private-class context. These sources support a compact Costa Rica rope-organizer entry, but do not by themselves justify lineage, rank or teacher-study connections.
Reference links
Sources
- EscenaCR official site catalogue record
- MsC Worldwide presenters 2024: Master Kai catalogue record
- MsC Worldwide presenters 2026: Master Kai catalogue record
- Genially: Shibari Jap Aesthetics by Kai Navarro catalogue record
- EscenaCR WordPress archive: Kai Navarro material catalogue record
- EscenaCR WordPress archive: Yukimura lesson translation by Rigger Kai catalogue record
- Rigger Kai's Blog catalogue record
- Aethy: Rigger Kai / @Riggerkai@aethy.com catalogue record
- Instagram: Rigger Kai / @rigger.kai catalogue record
- Instagram: Luis Navarro / @riggerkai.cr catalogue record
- Bluesky: Rigger Kai / @riggerkai.bsky.social catalogue record