Hudson Valley Rope

Can I Be Mean For A Second?

Simple Predicaments and Sadistic Floor Ties with Sydona Rogue

Sunday February 2, 2:00pm-5:00pm

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Kingston, NY

This class explores three simple but sadistic floor-based predicaments of varying intensity, as well as several tips and tricks for how to cause (consensual) distress with our favorite medium, rope. Whether you’ve just tied your first single column or are a seasoned rigger, these “quick and dirty” predicaments are just that–quick, simple, and sure to have your bottom sweating in seconds.

Prerequisites: Any single column tie and basic frictions (reverse tension, half hitch, munter hitch)

*If you don’t feel you are comfortably confident on the prerequisite knowledge, there are still tickets available for Rope 101 — sign up above!

Format: 2.5 hours

Supplies needed: Four bundles of rope, a blindfold, and a cutting tool

About Sydona Rogue

In March of 2018 Sydona found her way into the NYC kink scene and never looked back. Since then, she's immersed herself into honing her rope practice, perhaps obsessively. She currently works full time as a nightlife performer, bondage artist, photographer, and creator. In these past several years she's traveled both within the U.S. and internationally for rope opportunities, as a performer, as a student, and more recently as an educator. Previous to 2020, Syd trained and worked as a professional modern and contemporary dancer, and is proud of the way she melds her thirteen odd years of experience as a movement artist into her current practice.

In the past six years she's performed at events (in no particular order) by House of Yes, House of X, House of Gemini and Scorpio, HAVEN, The Red Pavilion, The Box, Hit Me Up, Nuit Des Cordes, Folsom Street Fair, Dances of Vice and The Secret. In 2019 she co-built two 300 square foot installations at Industria and at Knockdown Center for events produced by Wizard Studios and in January of 2020, December of 2022, and December of 2024 she assisted Hajime Kinoko's large scale Shibari Web performances in NYC and San Francisco. She's currently a resident rope educator and facilitator at NYC spaces Temple, HAVEN, and Hit Me Up, and regularly facilitates, teaches, and performs at many events and venues in NYC and beyond.