Fuoco

Fuoco, whose studio site writes the name lowercase, is a rope educator, performer and professional acrobat. Fuoco dates the start of rope practice to 2012 in Phoenix, Arizona, and says early learning continued in London.

Background

Fuoco says that after returning to the United States, presenting at events across the country began, alongside regular trips to Europe to study. Fuoco describes a rope career alongside work as an acrobat and movement specialist, with training in hair hanging, contortion, aerial hoop and partner acrobatics. Fuoco says studies with practitioners from Japan and Europe and a multidisciplinary background informed a personal approach to shibari. Fuoco states that kink is political and brings personal values into teaching spaces.

Teaching

Fuoco runs Imprint Studio in downtown Northampton, Massachusetts. Its offerings page lists private and small-group lessons, in person or online, for riggers and for rope bottoms. Topics for riggers include early suspensions, improvisation and customizing harnesses; topics for bottoms include communicating with the person tying and understanding body awareness. The Shibari Study podcast host introduced Fuoco as a circus performer active in rope since 2012 and described classes that equip bottoms with practical skills.

The FLARE 2026 presenter page lists Fuoco and Demo and the classes Bespoke Box Tie and Harness Invention. The same page says Fuoco joined Shibari Study in 2023 as Director of Education.

VoxBody Studio in Oakland listed a September 2026 weekend with Fuoco, including Improvisational Tying and Sacrificial Offerings, and called it a seventh visit.

Writing

In the podcast, the host discussed two essays by Fuoco: On Bottoming Responsibility, first written in 2015 and later updated, and We’re Not Ready for Accountability. In the podcast, Fuoco described fourteen short Instagram videos on rope drills made during the early COVID lockdown.