Juno Sloane
San Francisco rope performer and teacher, also known as Dancehalldyke, who is a Twisted Windows troupe member, offers lessons and courses with slab_me_harder as recurrence rope, and is listed in the line-up of Ropecraft Chicago 2026.
Juno Sloane, who also uses the handle Dancehalldyke, is a rope performer and teacher in San Francisco. Juno is a member of the Twisted Windows troupe and, together with slab_me_harder, runs the teaching and performance project recurrence rope.
Performance
The Twisted Windows troupe page lists Juno’s performance roles as flyer and tyer. The troupe describes Juno’s rope style as athletic, mixing traditional kinbaku and dynamic transitions, and notes a background in mathematical physics, modern dance and classical ballet. According to that page, Juno’s rope performances have appeared at the Folsom Street Fair, the Seattle Erotic Art Festival, SF Pride, Nuit des Cordes and VoxBody Studio.
The recurrence rope site says Juno and slab_me_harder have performed together at events in the area and abroad, among them Twisted Windows, Dore Alley and Nocturnal Events, and that the two currently organize a rope share each month in San Francisco. The Ropecraft Chicago site lists Dancehalldyke among the presenters announced for Ropecraft Chicago 2026, and among the performers of that edition’s Flow Erotic Cabaret.
Teaching
The recurrence rope biography calls Juno a rope switch and says Juno has tied in several styles for seven years, exploring vulnerability, capability and emotional states. The site presents the pair’s goal as emotional rope scenes and performances plus practical rope education, and says their teaching draws on backgrounds as educators and mathematicians.
The courses page lists classes such as “Presence & Emotion in Rope”, “Navigating the Rope Scene”, “Musicality in rope” and “Playing with Rope: for Beginners”. The courses page also lists an agura transition sequence developed by the pair for the 2022 Folsom Twisted Windows event. The privates page offers lessons in person and online, for individuals or small groups of up to five or six people. The Twisted Windows troupe page likewise notes that Juno offers private lessons.