Sydona
Brooklyn rope artist and former professional dancer who is a resident educator at Temple, has performed in the assistant role at Hajime Kinoko's web shows, and studied privately with Kirigami and Tenshiko in Milan.
Sydona, who also appears as Sydona Rogue or simply Syd, is a rope artist, performer and photographer based in Brooklyn. Her own site calls her a rope artist and movement practitioner, and she works full time in nightlife performance, bondage art and freelance photography. Temple describes her approach as informed by movement and performance.
Background
Her own site says she is originally from San Diego, trained as a professional dancer and completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Alvin Ailey/Fordham program in 2018. Temple’s profile dates her entry into the New York kink scene to March 2018 and says she stopped working as a professional dancer around 2020, carrying that movement training into her rope.
Lineage and study
Her about page lists intensive workshops with Erato Banana, Yagami Ren, Tamandua, Murasaki Haruan, Ropunawa, Federico Kirigami, Soptik Zet and Hajime Kinoko. Her own site records more than thirty hours and Temple’s page more than forty hours of private tuition in Milan with Kirigami and Tenshiko. According to Temple, she was invited in February 2026 for close study in Tokyo with Norio Sugiura and Naka Akira.
Teaching
She facilitates and teaches as a resident educator at Temple and at Hit Me Up, a New York event series. Her offerings page lists private and semi-private lessons; a beginner lesson covers a short history of Japanese and Western rope practice, safety, rope types and basic frictions and patterns. Peace Temple Retreats credits Sydona with creating its shibari retreats and describes the featured retreat as her fourth year. Temple lists work as an educator and performer at venues in London, Los Angeles, Berlin, Barcelona and Denver.
Performance
Her site lists appearances at House of Yes, The Box, Folsom Street Fair, Nuit des Cordes and other nightlife events, plus two large installations she helped build in 2019. She assisted Hajime Kinoko’s large web performances in New York and San Francisco, and Temple says she worked alongside him on all of his US tours from 2020 onward. She is available for hire for demonstrations, ready-made acts and long ambient performances.