Archeypical Encounters in Shibari

A weekend of workshops – two days of only ropes from lunch until deep into the night. After the Saturday …

after the self-suspension workshop

Hours of suspension, sun and blue sky and freezing outside, chai tea by the tureen, leek, potato, grünkern soup (with …

self-suspension and finland

The last self-suspension workshop consumed all of Sunday and even before it began there was talk of another, so happiness …

yoga + shibari regular berlin classes for february

Sunday, Thomas’ last day in Berlin, and post-breakfast a soup was prepared. By 1 o’clock, up-and-down stairs was occurring, on …

Thomas & Dasniya Shibari

The last time I saw Thomas, he had a mass of dreads. That was in Adelaide. Last week he arrived …

Yoga + Shibari in Berlin, January

Yoga and Shibari begins again this week in Teatris from this Wednesday evening. Also becoming a monthly regular is the …

n+2 video at Yoga+Shibari

I shall watch it with eyes averted. Or, perhaps glimpse it every so often. Nonetheless, tomorrow night I won’t exit …

the n+2 dimensional space for n>1 — beginning aftermath

… Where was I? Brussels. It took longer to get from Schönefeld airport to home than from Brussels to Berlin. …

the n+2 dimensional space for n>1 — day 10 & 11

It’s already over. We performed last night and today is Saturday, the residency finished. In-between now and Thursday morning, we …

the n+2 dimensional space for n>1 — day 9

The last proper day of rehearsal, where we have the entire time to ourselves. Tomorrow we find our way through …

the n+2 dimensional space for n>1 — day 8

… which was yesterday and last night. A day of running through what we have up till now and making …

the n+2 dimensional space for n>1 — day 7

The first day returning after (most of) one day off, and ten hours rotating between studio and kitchen with a …

the n+2 dimensional space for n>1 at Bains Connective

On Friday, 9th December, Dasniya Sommer and I will be having a showing of the n+2 dimensional space for n>1, which …

the n+2 dimensional space for n>1 — day 5 & 6

Too fast go the days from Friday to Saturday and now the unexpected one day off. I go to the …

the n+2 dimensional space for n>1 — day 4

It helps to remember that what is seen in a small studio with green dance floor, big windows, and other …

the n+2 dimensional space for n>1 — day 3

Experiencing a little fatigue today – I haven’t done yoga for five days in a row since such a long …

the n+2 dimensional space for n>1 — day 2

There is a kitchen, where we cook a late lunch or early dinner, eat baguette and drink tea or coffee, …

the n+2 dimensional space for n>1 — day 1

We arrive at Bains around 11am. It’s a half hour easy walk from St Gilles Vorplein to beside the park in …

Ivo’s Studio

Red sky in the morning, and a chaotic arrival to Brussels. Somehow I thought Chaussee de Mons ran parallel to …

the n+2 dimensional space for n>1

Once more going west, we take the ungodly hour flight from Schönefeld to Brussels. Dasniya and I are having a …

Shibari/Bondage Workshop at Bains Connective, Brussels

Once more to Brussels, this time somewhere new. Dasniya and I have been working around the edges of a performance/installation …

Dasniya Sommer Yoga & Shibari in Wedding, November + Brussels Project

Now there is a beautiful space to make yoga and shibari in once more, with kitchen, things to hang from, …

Shibari Kantine

The Kantine is on the ground floor, stretching from the street back some fifty meters in three distinct sections. First …

dvd shibari origami

Some weeks ago, Dasniya and I were climbing with Rui. The sky blackened and we fled the short distance to …

yoga + shibari in teatris hallenprojekt

(A very quick post because I’m being whipped by the sigil of lucifer …) After wandering across Berlin for the …

lucifer fallen

Gala left for Brussels yesterday; Dasniya for Berlin this evening. Me, tomorrow, and Michael to ballet in the morning. The …

Madrid rehearsals day 5 – casa de campo

Today was the last day of us together as the foursome rehearsing. Instead of going into the studio, we arose …

Madrid rehearsals day 4

Ballet first with Dasniya. In ropes. A pity no pictures of that. Something in the distraction of being tied up …

Madrid rehearsals day 3

Third day, the middle of the week, only two remaining and Friday already planned with Shibari in the park and …

Madrid rehearsals day 2

From where I stay, it is a walk downhill across the south of the centre of Madrid, westwards to the …

madrid rehearsals day 1

Some photos from Monday – three each from my and Dasniya’s rehearsals after ballet in the morning with Michael… madrid …

Madrid

Already in Madrid three days since arriving Saturday morning and sliding across town on the Metro to walk into Dasniya’s …

BER-MAD

Tomorrow early I am flying to Madrid. My first time there or in Spain, and yes, one of the reasons …

bondage japonés Madrid con Dasniya Sommer

Dasniya and I will be in Madrid later this month for some adventures with dance. Also there will be a …

Brussels yoga + shibari last four days & photoshoot

The absence of writing since Wednesday should indicate how involved the workshop was. Yes, finished, on to more rope things. …

Brussels yoga + shibari third day

Teaching yoga for the first time in quite some while. It’s very different from doing, which is almost automatic, the …

brussels yoga + shibari first days

Two days already passed. We are back in the beautiful loft studio in Charleroi/Danses La Raffinerie, arriving early yesterday to …

Hello Brussels

A very early train. Not as early as a plane. For some reason there was an absence of cheap flights …

process/unprocess

It was Michael Carter who I think coined the name, but I can’t find where. Last time I was in …

Reminder: Yoga and Shibari Workshops – Belgium, July

This is a very short reminder that Dasniya Sommer will in Brussels in July for her Yoga and Bondage, and …

drilling foundations at night

Riding home from Yoga+Bondage with Dasniya, around 1am the city still, especially along my favourite to-and-from Kreuzberg route. From Oranienplatz …

first y+b nameless

Most of the days since I returned from Brussels have been occupied with doings at nameless. Scraping, vacuuming (it survived), …

cartwheel again

I thought perhaps these were better separate from a Yoga+Bondage workshop. The last few days have been busy at nameless, …

a body – gala moody at the volksroom

The coffee is made thus: In a small bowl two teaspoons or so of sugar for every cup is added. …

knoten-unknoten

Last night I stumbled upon knots and suspensions in the most unlikely of places (a bit like how after having …

dasniya sommer spring / summer yoga + shibari programme

Some workshops and classes from Dasniya in the coming months: On Wednesday evenings in Kreuzberg, the Yoga and Bondage class …

(renamed as) mm ∫-1x dt/dv ≥ ⨍(dy:fr:hf)

The last few days, Dasniya, Hartmut and myself had been in another Fabrik, with another mobile gantry. More dust and …

mein lesbisches auge 10

Some weeks ago, I was called upon to get an image ready for print with a half-hour, mid-night deadline; the …

Yoga and Shibari Workshops – July – Brussels

Returning to Brussels, in July Dasniya Sommer will be teaching two Yoga+Bondage workshops at Charleroi Danses – La Raffinerie. The …

bvg ∫-1x dt/dv ≥ ⨍(dy:fr:hf) … again

A couple of weeks ago, the delightful Nicole from La Monnaie came to visit. We sat outside Café Pförtner in …

Yoga&Shibari 27.4.

Wednesday has become a long day for me. Cycling to and from training in the morning, with the two hours …

‘Yoga und Shibari’ – April/ Mai / Juni – Berlin

From Dasniya Sommer, our adventures in the coming months, a return of Yoga + Shibari classes, as well as some …

bvg ∫-1x dt/dv ≥ ⨍(dy:fr:hf)

(Which is harder to write when you can’t plop in some mathematical notation.) There’s a lot happening at Uferhallen lately. …

stuttgart calixto bieito parsifal (+ andrew)

It seems the nature of seeing a performance in another city also involves lengthy missed trains on the return for …

after the weekend of ropes

Jochen has a beautiful workshop in Ohlauerstr, near the Görlitzer Park, an old and vast Fabrik dressed in olive green …

Yoga & Shibari Workshop in March

From Dasniya Sommer: YOGA & SHIBARI WORKSHOP/ OPERATIC ROPES Liebe Leute, am ersten Märzwochenende (5./6.) unterrichten wir einen 2 tägigen …

us alone tied

The day before the last performance, we arranged to spend some time on the stage working on some suspensions and …

parsipress? pressifal?

More? More! Continuing on from when Castellucci was a criminal … Words and Pictures!. I was planning on making an …

the tying before parsifal unties

I saw the first Act. Well, parts of it I’d not seem before, while loitering side-stage from shortly after Nietzsche …

third to last (+ workshop) (+ special treat)

I ask Andrew what happens if you can’t sing? Do you act it while someone sings from the side, or …

parsifal suspended

Today was our second workshop, this time being attentive to suspension. After the last one, word got around of our …

castellucci is a criminal

After the fourth performance, an emotionally tough night for us, we stand outside the stage door. A woman in beret, …

half-way

Last night, the fifth performance and half-way through the season of Parsifal, was pretty much what we hoped for. I …

parsi5000

Just after midday today, I took my 5000th photo with my Panasonic LX3. It’s not especially good, blurry, mid-action, looking …

third and some thoughts on revulsion

(I wasn’t so happy with what I wrote here last night, so I’m splitting this up and hopefully will write …

opening & second night

Now is the difficult part. Rehearsals are easy. Turn up in the morning or when the call is, newness and …

parsifotos

Once we got into the theatre to rehearse, I decided to not show all the photos, and wait until Parsifal …

last before

I see so little. The first act is warming up, putting on ropes. The only part I really see is …

all together now (including pauses)

Oh! There are a lot of people here. I wasn’t expecting that! Not just an obvious number of friends and …

third before last

I have not so much to say today, even being aware what i wrote yesterday is somewhat cryptic; I lost …

1882, chin of nietzsche, invisible orchestra, double basses clamour to escape

Which is the title to the only image I will show today. As we come closer and I spend more …

parsifal la monnaie shibari

Either it is lack of sleep, or I am on the precipice of whatever has waylaid many of the cast …

that’s what parsifal said…

Getting stuck in Ghent at 1am after missing the last train from Brugge, talking in the kitchen till 330am and …

orchestra-ing and opera-ing (and black metal-ing)

The evening cafeteria meal was unique in being quite utterly tasteless. I had to ask Gala to try the dried …

la monnaie

Strange I have no category for pain. Two days after feeling so comfortable hanging for half an hour, I find …

bo shibari

Today was working with Gala mostly. It’s almost 1am and I am a little bleary-eyed and wondering if dinner, shower, …

Wahnsinn… Oh! – Wut… Ach! Jammer!

(Mainly because supernaut has been discovered at Parsifal, so I can no longer entertain the fancy I’m writing for my …

friday parsifal

A late start for some of us today and not even a suspension for me, though I was all ready …

the second act

Already almost 1am and still long before I find sleep. Today was another long one, with a running of the …

wherin tomas suspends dasniya, later much stupidity from gala and frances

We went in on Monday, the others enjoying a day off, to work on some rope stuff. Dasniya wanted to …

miscellanea surrounding friday evening

Did I say we tried the second scene mostly naked with much whiteness? Comes off with soapy showering. That was …

break test

An interesting experiment. Amidst all the known security of carabiners, harnesses, spinners bearing 26kN stamps, and all the multitude of …

yesterday and today

We spent some hours yesterday using the empty rehearsal theatre to try some things. Two days of snoozing, eating, snoozing, …

ein bühnenweinfestspiel, some books, a story

“A funny story.” (As I remember it from 9am, or, how black metal brings us all together.) “I said to …

some parsifal-ing

The rehearsal theatre is much bigger than most company’s performing theatres. Next door is another. Below others. A cafeteria on …

berlin to brussels … again …

Much packing, organising, turning off of fridge, plants watering, courier arriving, eating the remainders of the fridge. (and so on.) …

Parsifal

(Wherein I reveal what I’ve been biting my tongue about for months…) Dasniya said (perhaps in August), “The Opera in …

Shibari Technique December

While Dasniya is away on tour, I will be teaching the Tuesday evening Shibari Technique classes. The address is: “Buffet …

Burka Bondage

The past couple of months Dasniya has been rehearsing with Helena Waldmann, in a piece she helped with last year …

some sunday evening shibari attempts

No, I haven’t been writing here much lately (again). I took a week off and went to Brussels, staying with …

uferhallen – autumn

A warm autumn afternoon yesterday with Michael, come all the way from Madrid. A morning cleaning, and more warmth of …

grunewald

Schlachtensee, Krume Lanke and the lakes along the east side of Grunewald have been my favourite walks around Berlin since …

Dasniya Sommer Shibari Workshop October Berlin (+ Finland and other things…)

Dasniya will be teaching Yoga and Shibari / Rope Techniques workshop in Berlin Kreuzberg on October 1st-3rd. Also, the very …

eating: lamb and fresh fig tajine

Michael came back to Berlin for the weekend, a welcome surprise that coincided nicely with my weeks-long desire for a …

zwei jahre aufenthaltstitel

Not much writing here lately, being distracted with a couple of large design projects and miscellaneous other things (mostly involving …

london again

Dasniya received some photos of her and us at the London Festival of the Art of Japanese Bondage a couple …

yoga + shibari brussels photos

Some photos from the workshop Dasniya taught in Brussels late-June/early-July. I’ve been meaning to put these up for a while, …

return to blog

The last week has been chaotic. I came to Brussels slightly early – on Tuesday, to help with Dasniya’s Yoga …

two… zwei

Two years now. And it was yesterday. I arrived in Berlin after some hours from Frankfurt on the train, easier …

BER – BRU – BER – VIE

Not so much an open secret as something I haven’t got around to writing about here, I depart tomorrow for …

shibari oskar helene heim

On the weekend, Dasniya and I travelled south-west to near Wannsee, Oskar Helene Heim, an old hospital now taken over …

Yoga & Shibari Brussels

Dasniya will be teaching Yoga and Bondage workshop in Brussels at the start of July. Excitement! Hello people! at the …

some days in london … part one

Arriving late. Dasniya and I caught the ring S-Bahn to Flughaven Schönefeld certainly one of the most dreary airports belonging …

japanese bondage live drawing

Monday at the London Festival of Japanese Rope Bondage, something of a quieter day for all of us finished with …

dasniya sommer dvd

Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been working on a project for Dasniya Sommer, for whom I did her …

rope techniques

More Shibari with Dasniya, now in Kreuzberg. Much fun. Jeden Mittwoch 20 -22 h Shibari Technik in Kreuzberg An diesen …

2009 theater

Without taking the time to look, I’m not sure I’ve ever done an end-of-year best-of list for performances I’ve seen. …

seile

I bought some rope today. From Fesseltrieb in far east Sonnenallee, biking through a first biting day of winter, clear …

bondage basics

More from Dasniya, who shall be teaching a two day workshop in Shibari in November. Certainly one of the highlights …

Konstruierte Fantasien / The Construction of Fantasy

From Dasniya, and what I’ve been doing since March this year, being tied, suspended, flying, tying others, playing, something like …

osada steve

A couple of days before I began my current day job, a Thursday evening, having done some fast coding, I …

Yoga im August

Yoga in August for Berlinerinnen, two hours every Sunday and I think you should go. Liebe Augustinischen Yogis, Für jene …

dasniyasommer.de

Because it’s… I’m watching WordPress install under the tessellated layers of windows open. I can see command lines march upwards, …

i’m home now…

That’s all. where i was, tuesday till saturday from daniel… from dasniya…

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