Mie Neko

Mie Neko is a German switch.

Era: 2020s

SWITCH · TEACHER

Ruhrgebiet-based rope switch, teacher, performer and organizer. Her own site says she began tying in 2017 and has been present as a teacher and performer at national and international events since 2020, while organizing her own events and workshops. Her teaching emphasizes smaller-rigger experience, rope-model education, safety in rope, body manipulation, power dynamics, semenawa and emotional connection through rope, with workshops in Essen, NRW, and private tuition in Dortmund. Her rigger profile frames her style as independent and shaped by many inspirations rather than one single school, with model experience as a major source for her rope practice. In a first-person Daruma interview she names RopuNawa, Sawa Shibari and Soptik as formative teachers, with Tamandua, Kirigami and Dolph as style inspirations. International programme credits include Danish Shibari Festival 2023 with Fille De Lune, SwissBound Spring and RopeLinked Rotterdam in 2024, an announced Knots N'Roots Costa Rica programme with Taste of Dinner in 2024, and EURIX presenter roles in 2021, 2022, 2024 and 2026.

Influences (mutual or directional): RopuNawa, Sawa, Soptik, Tamandua, Federico Kirigami.

Collaborators: SickDucks, Taste of Dinner, Soptik, KinkNamePending, Nikoleta, Tamandua.

Associated venues, magazines, films and performances: Prague Shibari Fest 2010s, EURIX 2020s, Daruma Berlin, Danish Shibari Festival, Swissbound, Knots N'Roots Costa Rica.