Image by Andrew BottWOW! What a totally amazing show!
It's not every day that you INVENT a completely NEW GENRE OF PERFORMANCE.
But that's just what I and the fabulous aerialist Paloma Negra just did.
Image by Andrew Bott
I met Paloma only recently but we hit it off like a house on fire!
And that's exactly what we did when we performed at Hellfire Resurrection on the 25th Sept in Melbourne for Australia's biggest BDSM event "Oz Kink Fest" - we set the house afire!
We combined My shibari prowess and Paloma's trapeze skills to create something we've NOT seen before and CAN'T find anywhere else the whole world over; a hybrid performance genre combining Shibari and Aerials, specifically the static trapeze.
(If it's not already on Youtube, it doesn't exist!!)
Image by Andrew Bott
I tied Paloma to the bottom rung of the trapeze, where she explored her shapes. I then tied Myself to the topmost "spreader bar" (yes, really!) then inverted Myself, drawing on My previous experience in self shibarisuspension.
I then re-tied her to the same spreader bar and we hit on different classic kinbaku positions, with the final moment with Paloma exploding out of a double futomomo tie with beautiful red shibari rope hanging down! you really did need to be there to see it to believe it.
Image by Andrew Bott
We both walked off the stage knowing we'd just done something utterly intense - and also totally unique...
As soon as I have video footage, you'll see it here.
Best, in the air and on the ground!
MT