The performance, Rope Passions at Play, produced by Artemis Hunter and sponsored by Domina Dea, was a huge success. The weeks preceding the event were carefully planned and the evening was one that I won’t soon forget. It’s one of the best rope events I’ve attended this year since Atlanta Bound in March.
There were four performances. The first by Artemis Hunter and Ginger Myrrh was a highly erotic dance of the veils, rope, and floggers to the music from Phantom of the Opera.
Noted rope artist, author, and educator, Lee Harrington was the second performer. Dressed as a deliciously impish Pan-like character, complete with furry pants, he took charge of his prey in a moving example of power exchange. The scene ended with Lee putting rope cuffs on himself and led off the stage by his prey.
One of our own, Tat and his sassy, used knife play in a sadistic inverted suspension. Then, Lee then returned for an encore in the role of a shy boi seducing a pretty girl with his rope. It was quite sweet and hot. Afterward, he sat on the dais along with Artemis and Tat and took questions.
Tat described how he became interested in rope, taught himself, improving his techniques by practice, attending the past two Atlanta Bound workshops, practice, and Shibaricon in Chicago, and more practice.
Artemis, a nationally known sensual rope artist/instructor, used Tat as an example of home grown talent. In just a few years, rope bondage in Atlanta has grown from a small thread to the thriving community of inspirational rope artists that it is today.
Many thanks to Domina Dea, a rope lover herself, and highly visible member of the community, for supporting Rope Passions at Play and Artemis Hunter for efforts to put it together.
