Discover Kinbaku

Discover Kinbaku, 2010s–, is a German studio in the bakushi / kinbaku ecosystem.

Era: 2020s

Berlin-based kinbaku education, performance, photography and research project by Alexander MA and Natasha NawaTaNeko. Current Discover Kinbaku pages frame the project as a Berlin kinbaku studio and rope-bondage education system that teaches Japanese-inspired rope as an embodied craft for riggers, rope bottoms and couples, combining technique, non-technique, body, mind, communication, consent and shared scene design. Alexander's Elements System gives the rigger side a staged didactic framework, while Natasha's rope-bottom coaching and keynotes extend the project into somatic bottoming education. Discover Kinbaku also offers private coaching, international workshops for host venues, live performances, Studio 6x6 work in Berlin-Moabit, the Kinbaku Salon and the Kinbaku Society of Berlin / KSB magazine project. Its own materials frame the work as rooted in semenawa by Akira Naka, with key influence from encounters with Naka Akira, Sugiura Norio and Miho Ikeda. Alexander's Bodies under Pressure concept is taught as a Discover Kinbaku workshop and articulated in his 2025 essay as a somatic / pressure-based semenawa approach. EURIX lists DiscoverKinbaku for beginner-course teaching in 2021 and Alexander / Natasha in later 2020s editions.

People associated with Discover Kinbaku: Alexander MA, Natasha NawaTaNeko, Naka Akira, Norio Sugiura, FrlLilly, Seilartig.