rope manipulation intensive
This is a shared space for learning, creating, and connecting.
Over five days, in an intimate and supportive environment, we engage with all facets of Rope Manipulation: learning the fundamentals of knot language, refining sensitivity through movement, allowing time for reflection and integration, and experimenting with rope to open new creative perspectives.
This intensive is an invitation to slow down and listen, to the body and to the rope. You will be encouraged to explore your own pathways, integrate the techniques emerging from my personal research, and uncover your own relationship with the rope.
A space for curiosity, joy, dialogue, and a deeper understanding of what this practice can be.
rope manipulation
- speaking knots
Speaking Knots is one of the five core methods in the Rope Manipulation approach that I have developed since my Master studies at DOCH in Sweden.
It consists of a series of improvisation tasks aimed at creating confined spaces of research within which practitioners can experiment freely on the aerial apparatus.
The emphasis of such exploration is to train practitioners to speak the language of knots, where knots are opportunities for pathways.
The purpose is to stimulate thinking through movement, developing body intelligence, as well as to encourage conscious and in the moment choice-making, presence, and awareness as we practice and explore.
The objective of this work is to expand technical knowledge of our practice through personal experience.
sensing
Sensing is one of the four methods in the Rope Manipulation approach, and it brings focused attention to the body.
In this practice, the body is understood in two dimensions: the outer structure and the inner experience, linked to perception, sensation, and imagination.
In Sensing sessions, we explore movement by focusing on our articulations - the places where the body bends, shifts, and connects (body knots). By initiating mobility from these points, we gain a deeper awareness of how our body moves and how it can move differently. This exploration not only refines proprioception but also opens new physical possibilities.
We also examine contact with the rope, treating it as an extension of the body rather than an external tool, and rope as our floor.
From this point of contact, we enter a space of imaginative exploration, where perception and sensation become the guides.
Through this interplay - between body awareness and imagination - we are led through the tasks. The practice becomes a process of tuning in, adapting, and discovering movement from within.
This work is in very close connection with the ground and can be done together with Speaking Knots.
writing the body
We live in a society where we learn to communicate verbally and, simply, we do not understand the language of our own body. We learn to train and perform tricks without establishing an intimate connection with ourselves and the relationship with the bodies involved in the process.
This seminar focuses on movement research through the lens of writing as a method to verbalise the body.
We will work on a physical sequence which, with my guidance, we will alter by adding layers to it. We will keep alternating writing and movement to feed off and enrich one another.
The purpose of this process is to get a better understanding of the emotions embedded in our movement, to notice them and give meaning to the actions we normally do.
A poetic, inmost, guided investigation to encourage awareness and discover something more about ourselves.
rolling technique
During this session I share a variety of single exercises and small sequences to help improve and better understand the art of rolling. We can focus on roll ups, roll downs, rolling on the spot, plus entries and exits into S-Wrap that I have found through my creative research.
Starting from the ground, we will gradually move onto a higher level, allowing everyone to refresh the basics while experiencing them through my lens, giving the opportunity to each participant to push their own limits.
partner rope
This work does not require a partner. It is based on movement exploration through the rope and the partner, exploring the principles and technical tools necessary to move with someone in the air.
The main focus of this work is to go beyond the common knowledge of duo work, tapping into the exploration of alternative routes and the chance to generate new material.
The creative research happens through improvisation tasks aimed at stimulating participants to explore partner work, close connection between two bodies, body weight, and the generation of spaces to create pathways, as well as learning to communicate silently and only through our bodies, instead of verbally.
We travel through a series of exercises that stimulate us to find continuous ways to give and take weight, building trust in our partner, understanding how to communicate and move with one another, as well as experiencing rope from another perspective.
technique through sequences
In this seminar, I share a variety of tricks and sequences that I have generated over the years through my creative methods.
All of these include technical tools such as rolling, beats, one arm, lasso and manipulation which can be extrapolated and explored as single elements and/or as part of the whole sequence a well, depending on the level.
We break them down, try them on the floor and up in the air, through a progressive process that allows participants to get a better understanding of the movement and the appropriate technique to succeed.
into the science of loops and lassos
This workshop is an in-depth study of loop making and the mechanics behind it, exploring how lassos emerge as an evolution of loops.
Through guided tasks, participants will be invited into personal exploration through dissecting looping techniques, discovering their own pathways, and understanding how these develop into lassos. Alongside this, I will share a repertoire drawn from my own ongoing research and investigation in relation these specific tasks.
A central focus of the workshop is the Three Knots Technique, a foundational tool part of the Rope Manipulation approach. We will explore loops as spatial opportunities, spaces that can be activated, shifted, and transformed. From multiple perspectives, we will break down how loops are generated through this technique and investigate how they can evolve into lassos when conditions allow.
moving through weight
In this workshop, we explore aerial movement through body weight, discovering what it feels like to move from there, and the possibilities it opens.
Here we experience the rope as ground, thinking of gravity not only in relation to the floor, but to the rope itself.
We explore weight distribution from shifting and transferring, to moving from and through weight, and how this can be used to generate movement.
We tap into Rope Manipulation tools such as Unweighting, used to deliberately generate space, moments of micro-float, therefore a sensation of weightlessness.
The weight of this work rests in listening through the body, discovering presence, and exploring the possibilities of movement on the rope. We move through the lens of weight, letting it guide our pathways, uncovering its multiple facets, and experimenting with how it shapes our connection to the rope, the body, and gravity.
exploring aerial movement
In this workshop, we explore aerial movement through body weight, discovering what it feels like to move from there, and the possibilities it opens.
Here we experience the rope as ground, thinking of gravity not only in relation to the floor, but to the rope itself.
We explore weight distribution from shifting and transferring, to moving from and through weight, and how this can be used to generate movement.
We tap into Rope Manipulation tools such as Unweighting, used to deliberately generate space, moments of micro-float, therefore a sensation of weightlessness.
The weight of this work rests in listening through the body, discovering presence, and exploring the possibilities of movement on the rope. We move through the lens of weight, letting it guide our pathways, uncovering its multiple facets, and experimenting with how it shapes our connection to the rope, the body, and gravity.
rope manipulation
- rope experiences
Alteration and Adaptation is one of the four core methods of the Rope Manipulation approach.
It invites you to step outside conventional rope practice by altering either the rope itself or the environment in which you work. These shifts create new conditions that change how the rope moves, how your body responds, and how the relationship between the two unfolds.
This method is about breaking habits and discovering alternative ways of engaging with the rope, ways of approaching it, moving it, and moving with it. It expands your physical vocabulary and deepens your creative connection to the apparatus.
The process begins with guided tasks where I share specific experiences taken from my personal experiences. I then gradually lead you to open into personal experimentation. From these experiences, we return to traditional rope practice with new insights and possibilities.
Rope Manipulation was born from this method. There’s so much to discover simply by taking the rope somewhere it hasn’t been before.