hua hua

hua hua, also written HuaHua, is a shibari teacher, performer and filmmaker who founded Borderline Productions. The Shibari Study instructor roster lists hua hua among its instructors, and the profile on the Karada House website describes the career as starting in China and continuing in many countries.

Background

Karada House says hua hua started Shanghai’s first public shibari classes in 2017 and later organized events across China. The profile says that in 2022 hua hua departed China to reach a wider community and subsequently taught in many countries. It also mentions a Patreon page used to build an international community and share shibari resources. An episode of the Rope Podcast, released in October 2022, interviewed hua hua; its description covers the Chinese rope scene and the Five Flowers tie.

Teaching

The Karada House profile calls the teaching style holistic rather than systematic, built around slow pacing, intention and attention to small details. The podcast description also emphasizes purpose, expression and emotions in rope practice.

On Shibari Study, hua hua has ten items in the library, including courses titled Moving the Body, Positioning Between Partners, Tying Slowly, Floor Play Flow, Hands in TK, Dense Rope and Intentional Third Rope, plus a free one-rope performance with a rope partner. The course pages place them between all-levels and experienced.

Daruma, the Berlin studio, published a recap after hua hua taught a full weekend of workshops there. In that conversation hua hua names learning from Hajime Kinoko as the source of base knowledge for building three-dimensional structures, and describes webs as a study of patterns found in nature, used for installation art, semenawa and soft suspension.

Performance and film

The Daruma recap also covers a Friday-night improvised performance on the summer solstice, with a model, in which tying was done in three dimensions around two pillars and a bamboo overhead. Karada House lists a live improvised performance and discussion by hua hua and a model, scheduled for 28 February 2021.

The Karada House profile describes Borderline Productions as primarily film-based and as often collaborating with artists from fashion, dance and experimental theater. In the Daruma interview, hua hua says film and performance were explored before shibari, and discusses work across classes, performances, video and installations.