performance

Saara Rei has been performing as a dancer and classical musician since early childhood. With that, performance comes as a natural addition to her Kinbaku practice.

Saara's performance style varies greatly depending on her audience and those she is performing with, as she views performance as a genuine collaboration between all those on stage and their witnesses. She has a personal taste for the absurd, the extreme, and the disturbing, and often likes to explore themes that aim to provoke dark and contradictory feelings. As both a rigger and a model, she is inspired most by Akira Naka, Pilar, Felix Ruckert, and Nicolas Yoroï, and with their inspiration, is constantly trying to construct and deconstruct the ways in which we can shape the body to suffer with grace.