Black Angel (Angelo Oscuro)
Turin rigger who came to rope in the early 2010s, trained with Italian teachers including Dr. Fatso and QuartaCorda, and since 2020 has taught as Black Angel through Shibari Torino and FunLab Torino, where he is listed as Angelo Oscuro.
Black Angel is the working name of a rope teacher, rigger and performer in Turin who appears as Angelo Oscuro on the course page of FunLab Torino. He teaches under the name Shibari Torino.
Background and lineage
His teacher page dates his first contact with rope to 2012, within Turin’s BDSM community; FunLab’s course page gives 2013 as the year he became active as a rigger. Both pages list Italian teachers he trained with. The Shibari Torino page names Dr. Fatso, QuartaCorda, Boris Mosafir, Beppe Ambrosia, Davide La Greca and Mao Drakaris, plus several others it does not name; FunLab’s page names QuartaCorda, drFatso, Ambrosia, La Greca and Mosafir. FunLab also describes him as versed in Western tying and in the Naka and Yukimura styles (spelled “Yokimura” there) and says he adapts each tie to the person in the rope. His own page points to studies in psychology and education, which he presents as a help in conveying the emotional and artistic side of the practice, and sums up his approach as body, mind and soul.
Teaching
According to his teacher page, he opened a school, FunLab Torino, in 2020 and began working as a teacher of shibari and other BDSM practices. Shibari Torino holds classes at FunLab in the Crocetta district and at Ginkgo Essentia, Kizuna Studio and Nebi elsewhere in the city. Its course page offers individual, couple, small-group (four to six people) and online formats, shaped around each participant’s starting point rather than fixed levels. FunLab’s course page describes monthly four-hour multilevel group lessons on Saturdays and two-hour private modules, each pairing a theory part on safety with practice, and a syllabus that runs from basic cuffs through harnesses and the takate kote to guided suspensions. The school also offers workshops for photographers, informational meetings and supervision for psychologists and sexologists who want to understand the practice, and sessions for massage and bodywork practitioners.
Shibari Torino presents Corde del Lunedì, a weekly Monday rope evening at FunLab open to experienced tyers and curious newcomers, with instructors on hand and a ban on photos, sex and BDSM play. Its listings also include occasional advanced workshop-performances by Black Angel, such as Floating Bamboo in October 2026, which explored releasing one of a bamboo pole’s two supports during a suspension and reading the shifting load.
Performance and community
His teacher page says he has performed at venues around Italy and has organized and taken part in artistic projects with television productions, without naming them. Shibari Torino offers stage shows, longer ambient performances for clubs, non-explicit demonstrations with a short introduction to the practice’s history, guest workshops, photo and video shoots and rope installations. The same teacher page records his part in Turin’s community life: he attends the Torino Munch and the Dirty Talking discussion evenings and has organized events including KinkyKingdom and Turet Munch.