Summercourse - Inspire by Fighting Monkey

Elke Schroeder will lead two Fighting Monkey based workshops focusing on Coordinations, Tools/Partnered training and Improvisation. The Open Workshop is for curious movers of all levels and disciplines. The Professional/Advanced Workshop will be specifically geared towards dancers and professional movement artists. We will work with task-based movement (rather than aesthetically-based), with moderate to high physical intensity. Importantly: this is not a “fight” practice – rather we fight our monkey minds.

In FM Coordinations, set movement sequences are delivered via a full-complexity approach in order to gain insight into our learning strategies and help uncover our blindspots as movers and as humans. The coordinations also train our dynamic range and elastic capacity for power and mobility. With the FM Tools/Partnered training, we work with instinctual/reactive movement and hone shared body empathy and the communication skills necessary for partnered dancing. In the Improvisation work, we mine for variability: using the specificity of a task to tune our bodily self-awareness and expand our movement capacity.

Schedule of the course and more information:

https://treenitry.fi/2026/05/15/treenit-ryn-kesakurssi-15-17-6-2026-inspire-by-fighting-monkey-with-elke-schroeder/

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