Fehér Dani

Fehér Dani is a rigger and rope teacher in Budapest who founded the ShibariArt brand and also appears online as Danny Rigg. Together with the Ministry of Freedom, an 18+ members’ club in the city’s eighth district, ShibariArt runs a regular Hungarian-language shibari program of workshops, rope jams and talks.

Background

Teacher bios published by Ministry of Freedom in 2026 say that Dani took up shibari seriously about three years earlier, after seeing at a festival what a rope session could offer, and completed the 100-hour Healing Art of Shibari training about a year before the bios were written. They describe a long-standing interest in the inner, emotional processes of rope alongside its technique and look. The same bios say Dani regularly gives rope demonstrations at community events and is responsible for the bondage area at the Freedom Fetish party series.

Teaching

The foundation workshop co-organized by ShibariArt and Ministry of Freedom, held several times in 2026, is a six-hour day that combines theory (what shibari is, body awareness, safety, communication, anatomy and personal competence) with a single column tie and a self-tied karada. It is aimed at newcomers, at people who enjoy being tied, and at those who already tie but skipped the foundations. A follow-up workshop in September 2026 covered frictions and simple upper- and lower-body harnesses as a base for later suspension work, and required either the beginner day or equivalent skills. Both workshops are taught in Hungarian, which the listings point out to foreign applicants.

Dani also hosts the monthly Freedom Rope Jam, an open practice evening without guided teaching where participants can try techniques, find partners and ask for help when a tie gets stuck. In March 2026 Dani gave a talk at a Ministry of Freedom munch on the history, experiences and risks of shibari, framed around whether it is about aesthetics, sexuality, pain or inner experience, and what a therapeutic approach can add to technical skill.

ShibariArt

The ShibariArt website offers private sessions, collaboration on photo and film shoots, and the foundation workshop, and carries Hungarian-language pages on the history of shibari and on important figures in that history. For shoots, it describes an artistic focus on form, texture and aesthetics rather than sexuality, and a rule that a session stops at once if Dani judges it necessary or the model asks. Its general text presents shibari as built on consent, trust and mutual respect.