Rope Studies

Rope Studies, 2011-2017, is a Greek performance in the bakushi / kinbaku ecosystem.

2011-2017

Era: 2010s

Athens shibari performance and education project created in late 2011 by Christos Tsakalos / Chris Shaghal, publicly working as Rope Shadow. Athens Voice describes Rope Studies as a group with dozens of Athens performances by 2014, including the `Cellobaku` collaboration with Stavros Parginos at Faust, while ShibariNews presents it as Rope Shadow's shibari performance team. VICE names Alice V. as the other public Rope Studies participant and places the project across photography / documentation, live performance and seminars. VICE also records a 2013 Gorgone collaboration and 2014 EURIX teacher / seminar context, while Booze Cooperativa sources place Rope Studies and Athens Rope Dojo together in mid-2010s Athens programming.

People associated with Rope Studies: Rope Shadow, Gorgone.