Alex DirtyVonP
French rope artist who trained with Naka Akira from 2013 to 2016, took over the École des Cordes near Paris in 2016 and leads it as head teacher, teaching the Naka-ryu style in group classes, private sessions and workshops.
Alex DirtyVonP is a French shibari teacher and performer who leads the École des Cordes, a kinbaku school with a studio in Joinville-le-Pont, just east of Paris. The details below come from the biography the school publishes for him and from its own description, and are attributed accordingly.
Training
According to his biography, he became interested in Japanese rope in the early 2010s, attracted by how it looks and by the strength of feeling it carries. From 2013 to 2016 he trained with Naka Akira, whose style the text characterizes as erotic and exacting. The same biography credits three further teachers: Riccardo Wildties, through whom he came to semenawa; Georg Barkas, who brought a more reflective, mind-focused angle to bondage; and Teshin, whose tying it associates with meditation and looking inward. The school says he has practiced the Naka-ryu style since 2013.
École des Cordes
The school describes itself as founded in 2010. According to his biography, Alex took it over in 2016 and turned it into a place for exchange and teaching; the school’s own page says he has led it for several years. As head teacher he offers group classes at beginner, intermediate and advanced levels, private lessons, immersive private sessions and workshops, and the school also runs an online members’ area with videos and articles. His biography says he teaches in France and abroad.
Style and other work
The biography presents him as recognized for his command of the Naka-ryu style, says his work joins technical skill and visual beauty with suffering made erotic, and says he puts safety and respect at the center of his practice. In describing his book, it names trust, communication and consent as the foundations of rope practice. It says his performances have been shown in France and in other countries, without naming events. It also lists a book, L’Art du Bondage, published in 2024 and co-written with Stéphanie Doe, a sex therapist and shibari teacher; no publisher record for that title was found during this review. The school co-organizes Paris Kinbaku Day, an afternoon of kinbaku performances by French and international performers on a theater stage in Paris; the second edition was announced for November 2026.