Mie Neko

Mie Neko, also written MieNeko, is a rope switch who teaches and performs shibari. The Berlin studio Daruma, which regularly invites guest teachers, introduces Mie Neko on its event pages as a rope switch from Germany who started in rope in 2017 and who, from 2020 on, branched out into teaching and performing at events at home and abroad. The same biography says Mie Neko also organizes workshops, rope jams and festivals.

Background

In an interview on Daruma’s news page, Mie Neko says rope began with several years as a model, and that the experience was positive enough to prompt tying for friends. Mie Neko started a monthly rope jam for young people in the local area and names Eurix, which Mie Neko first attended in October 2017 and has attended every year since, as a turning point. The interview credits Ropunawa, Sawa Shibari and Soptik with shaping development as both model and rigger, and lists what came from several teachers: creativity from Ropunawa, sadism from Soptik, slowness from Tamandua, Kirigami’s handling of the body and dynamism from Dolph.

Approach

Daruma’s biography describes a tying style that combines body manipulation, power dynamics and semenawa with a soft but precise manner, informed by a dance background. It says the teaching centers on bottom education, safety and building emotional connection through rope, from the standpoint of a smaller rigger. In the interview, Mie Neko calls softness the first quality sought in a rope partner and says sex is not part of this practice. The interview also records a preference for performing in spaces meant to be safer for FLINTA* people, and its questions mention classes at Schauspiel Köln and performances at parties that mix circus, kink and techno.

Workshops and performances

Daruma listed a July 2024 weekend with Nikoleta Ginger covering torsions, backbends and moving the tied body, plus an evening class on the tenshi harness and a performance. In March 2025 it listed three sessions with Catherine: Body vs. Suspension Lines, Sensual Force and Fun with (Half) Booty Basket, with the two-day ticket including entry to a Saturday-night performance. For November 2026 the studio lists the workshop Predicaments and the performance evening Nocturnes with Schlavendel, whom it describes as a rope bottom who regularly teaches workshops with Mie Neko.

Outside Berlin, Rope Rebels Vienna announced two workshops for 6 and 7 December 2025 with Mie Neko and Fille de Lune, the first of them an introduction to full suspension.