POLE & ROPE: INTERTWINED

Collaboration with Tilly Poison to explore the intersection of Pole Dance and Shibari, creating a practice-based dialogue between movement, gravity, and constraint. The collaboration investigates the tension between freedom and restriction, using rope and pole as both tools and mediums to navigate spatial, physical, and emotional boundaries.

This project unfolds as a live exploration of bodies in motion, where suspension, tension, and release coexist with the fluidity of dance. The 3-minute impression captures the first encounter, highlighting how the performers navigate proximity, trust, and the interplay between individual expression and shared choreography. Rope transforms into both syntax and sculpture, while the pole serves as an axis around which bodies rotate, balance, and articulate themselves.

Through this initial exploration, the work gestures toward the possibilities of hybrid practices, where performance, play, and research merge. It is an intimate study of embodiment, highlighting the poetic and dynamic potential of combining Shibari and Pole Dance.

TECHNICAL DETAILS

Year: 2025
Medium: Performance, Video

CREDITS

Performance: Tilly Poison, Renée de Sans
Location: Karada House, Berlin