Honza Dark
Prague rope teacher at the studio Subspace since its beginnings, a student of Petr Soptík since 2015, whose dynamic, close-contact Dark-style is taught in beginner, intermediate and advanced workshops.
Honza Dark is a rope teacher in Prague and one of the lecturers at Subspace, the city’s shibari studio, where the studio’s profile says Honza has taught since its beginnings. Honza offers group workshops there and private lessons by arrangement.
Rope career and influences
According to the Subspace profile, rope has been part of Honza’s life for a long time, but intensive practice began in 2015, when Honza became a student of Petr Soptík, the studio’s co-founder. The profile also names Nicolas Arnoys as a strong influence on the way Honza ties.
Dark-style
The profile calls the resulting approach Dark-style: dynamic, built on close physical contact and emotionally intense. Honza ties mostly in motion, making use of physical advantage over the partner, and the studio says the style is easier to experience than to describe. The teaching, as presented on the same page, pays attention to communication and the emotional side of a scene as well as to technique.
Teaching at Subspace
The workshop history on the profile shows regular teaching at Subspace from 2020 onward. It includes many beginner workshops on technique, emotion and suspension running from 2020 to 2026; sessions of the studio’s “Vázání pro každého” (tying for everyone) series in 2020 on partner manipulation, tying in bed and basics; and a run of streamed classes in 2020 and 2021 on bed tying, simple positions, side suspension, partial suspensions from a futomomo and the takate kote, among them a live tying session with Nikoleta. Later entries include intermediate workshops from 2022 to 2024, a 2023 class on building atmosphere while tying, an advanced Thursday session in 2024 on co-tying, tying with several people, and workshops titled “Atmosphere, movement and emotion in tying – Dark-style” (2024), suspensions and transitions (2024) and “Dark style – beyond technique” (2025). Honza also appears among the teachers of the Subspace Akademie shibari course and in a “first time in rope” workshop prepared for the Intimity festival in 2024.