Practicing For Longevity with Elke Schroeder

Inspire by Fighting Monkey Workshop: Practicing for Longevity

Fighting Monkey is a longevity practice that values variability, adaptability and finding resilience by understanding our inherent relative fragility. It is a communication practice: how do we communicate with ourselves, with others, with the world at large?

Through curated “play under pressure” situations, we investigate strategies of observation, communication and learning and in this expand our movement capacity. These situations include improvisation/dance “tasks”, partnered movement situations, coordination sequences and relationship to tools/material objects.

FM practice is delivered in full complexity - we aspire to a full integration approach to practice and awareness.

For more information about the Fighting Monkey Practice and its founders, please visit: www.fightingmonkey.net

What to expect from the workshop

We look to provoke instinctual/reactive movement, dynamic range and elastic capacity for power and mobility and use of imagination in training. Failure is reclaimed as information as we play at the edge of impossible without crashing over.

What we will explore:

How to coordinate yourself in space and time. How to react and be creative. How to negotiate the space between us and work with external pressures. How to communicate with others. How we move as ourselves.

It will be sweaty. It will be hard. It will be easy. It will be fun.

No prerequisites for the workshop: it is for dancers, actors, visual artists, writers, athletes, martial artists, physiotherapists and everyone who’s interested in the above. Please bring appropriate clothes for moving.

About Elke

Elke Schroeder is a Canadian/German Helsinki-based dance artist. A passionate performer, teacher and maker, her work takes her to art and movement institutions around the world. A graduate of the School of Toronto Dance Theatre in 2005, her diverse training background includes myriad dance styles, acrobatics, theatre studies, martial arts, athletics, functional movement and yoga. Elke is a long-time student of the Fighting Monkey practice and is a designated Inspire by FM instructor. She is the co-creator of Underdog Practice with her partner Mikko Rinnevuori, makes solo work for her own company par/amour, and is a dancer for Raekallio Corp.

IG: @elkebschroeder

www.elkebschroeder.com

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