Shots of My Show "Sado" at Sydney Sexpo

Hi A/all!

As promised - photos from My HUGE show at Sydney Sexpo 2018!

Yes, there are many shots - but please bear with Me - as there were SO MANY moments to catch, and SO MUCH beauty in literally the BEST show I've ever done!

Please scroll down and enjoy Myself and My amazing co-performer, Paloma Negra from Paloma Negra Theatre, doing our thing on our custom made trapze rig at 10m high!

We won't get too many chances to perform on another rig like this so we really wanted as much capture as possible!

So many venues in Sydney and Melbourne are not high enough. For example, just today we were working out how to bring this to Oz Kink Fest in Melbourne in September, but hung from a 4000mm high tri-truss! (Wish us luck!)

It was the most challenging show for Me yet because I've not done much aerial work before, forget just simply being on the end of the ropes!

As you can imagine, I've mainly been the person DOING the tying - as opposed to receiving rope.

It was a great seachange.

Additionally, I'd offered to Paloma many moons ago that I'd love to teach her a little of bondage, so that she could tie Me in a show.

She's also been slowly grooming Me with more and more aerials content in our progressive shows...

THIS in itself is truly an ARTISTIC BENCHMARK.

Normatively in shibari performance across the world, you'd expect a rigger to tie a rope bottom.

In "Sado" not only do you have a bottom being tied, but also tying rope themself - AND tying the rigger! (PS. I'd NEVER call Paloma a bottom!!)

We wished to created this sense of mirroring in our actions, but also in debunking the traditional role of Top and bottom in BDSM, challenging female roles as bottoms, while creating a technical watershed of a performance.

THIS is what I'm excited about.

Paloma and I wanted to create images that looked like we were mirroring each other, both in action and in attention.

We wanted a sense of connection and intimacy - even if we were at opposite ends of the apparatus.

We wanted the performance overall to look stylish and have a certain elan, while still showing our raw passion for what we do.

I'm REALLY proud to say that we both feel we've achieved all these things. 

It was Paloma's idea to use a costume I'd recently designed and worn for another event, and it just looked fabulous.

The strong black calligraphic mark strikes against our pale skin, covered only in transparent latex! Paired with our similar distinctive hairstyles, we really do make a distinctive performing couple!

Final thanks must go to our amazing photographer, Roberto Duran!

He shot these beautiful images and we are so very lucky (and privileged) to be able to benefit from his exceptional skill and talent! 

THANKS YET AGAIN, ROBERTO!

We'll perform "Sado" again at Oz Kink Fest in Melbourne in September, and then we'll look for any opportunity to show it again around Australia - or maybe even further afield!

If you can get to Hellfire Resurrection on Sept 21, please come to see our show and the wonderful aerial X shibari show that we've created!

Best,

MT

Photos from Oz Kink Fest Show

Hi A/all!

Yes!! Another AMAZING show was up in lights at Oz Kink Fest in Melbourne on Sept 22 at the big Friday night club party Hellfire Resurrection!

My wonderful co performer Paloma Negra from Paloma Negra Theatre and I took our audience on a journey with shades of contemporary dance, butoh, My customary heavily hacked shibari, latex and shoe fetish!

No 50 Shades of Grey here! lol

I love crafting shows like you've never seen before.

I find SO MUCH Shibari rope bondage show boring, but not Mine.

You NEVER know what you'll see when I take the stage!

We used normal 6mm jute rope... But then when Paloma had the watershed idea of suspension using HEAVY THICK hemp, we just went with it!

I really had a revelation during our show about our prowess together.

Paloma is really a "co-performer" and creative co-conspirator, not a "rope bunny" or a "bottom".

One other thing she is, is THE BOMB.

Thanks Paloma - and thanks SO MUCH to Oz Kink Fest for having us back another year!

Best, up in lights again!

MT

Pics from My Shibari show @ Sydney Art Month

Hi A/all!

Just a quick blog about My show last night for Sydney Art Month at the National School of Art in honour of International Women's Day!

I suspended My friend in shibari rope bondage in a complex costume of breasts - that was half the challenge - then fisted her fabulous (fake) vagina, pulling out a sign about the death of 1st wave Feminist Art!

It was totally amazing and really abstract to bring our art and My shibari to a generally straight, serious art crowd...

They were receptive though after I started on a absurdist tip and horsed around with My friends cunt and the sign!

Here we are performing on My new collapsible portable suspension frame - a gift from some friends who didn't use it and thought I would. THANKS GUYS! :)

Best,

MT

Shots from My fab Shibari Hybrid Trapeze show!

WHAT a SHOW!

If you missed it, you missed the best shibari show I've done, to date, hands down.

At The Chamber last Saturday night, the amazing aerials artist and dancer Paloma Negra and I held court and presented our world first static trapeze shibari rope bondage hybrid show to a spellbound crowd!

Apparently, one mark of how good a show is is the LACK of drink sales during a performance.

I'd like to apologise to The Red Rattler for hosting us and then not making a buck when we were in the air! 

Check these images from the fabulous local photographer Roberto Duran who kindly offered to shoot Myself and Paloma Negra in performance!

The above image is Myself taking the meaning of "Rope bondage Top" to new ah, "heights"! I'm here in My very first full-on aerials move, a toe hang, (which scared the shit out of Me) on the top bar of the trap.

Thanks must go to BNB Studios Marrickville and Paloma Negra Theatre for being crucial in taking My performance to a new level of skill and daring. 

I was musing with Paloma the other day that, a few years ago, I totally felt at an impass with My performance.

Now, I'm well and truly past that. I have INVENTED a new style of hybrid performance with Paloma, bondage on the static trap.

Best, whether up or downside...

MT

Show at The Chamber this Sat night!

Hey A/all!

I'm up in lights again, this time with My biggest and best show ever!

I'm performing alongside the amazing aerials artist, Paloma Negra from Paolma Negra Theatre, at Sydney's goth fetish club "The Chamber", this Saturday night!

We're performing our own WORLD FIRST - a static trapeze and contemporary shibari rope bondage act, one of great technical proficiency and intensity!

These are some wonderful shots by Melbourne photographer Andrew Bott from the first time we had an opportunity to showcase our skills, at Oz Kink Fest in Melbourne in 2015.

It's a great honour to manifest ideas and perform alongside such a respected and diverse artist.

Paloma Negra at Paloma Negra Theatre is a dancer, choreographer and aerialist and has been performing professionally for 23 years.

She has also trained in martial arts and in the Japanese dance art form Butoh.

Please check out her profile, I am so lucky to work with her again! Click on the image below of her in a recent performance...

Click to go to Palma's site...

If you want to come see what I'm so excited about, grab your ticket for The Chamber this Saturday night by clicking on the flyer below. 

At the time of writing tickets were 90% sold out, so don't miss out on this rare opportunity to see Me in one of My greatest performances in Sydney!

Best, up in lights!

MT