Jozef Frucek & Linda Kapetanea
Fighting Monkey

Fighting Monkey Partnering is for us The Way of Emptying and Listening. Move together wild but safe. Partnering as a way to understand our own behavioural habits through interaction with our partners. We will be concentrating on anatomical understanding of locomotory system and it's functioning. We will have a look on how to meet the forces, which are acting on us and how we can avoid or absorb them, while being functionally open and ready to respond to any impulse that comes to us. We will work alone as well as with one or several partners on dance orientated wrestling and ?gthing, to create strength for clear decision and learn about movement functionality. Learn about balanced exchange of centralisation (movement towards centre, to safety, to roots) and extension (actions of daring to risk). Find and build flexible inner stability attentive enough to listen, accept, absorb, leading to free expression so important for a performer. Our aim is to build up conscious development of mental powers, able to direct and coordinate most of the physical and functional capacities of the body. Emotional understanding and physical equilibrium. Including specifics of each individual body proportions: overall dynamics, energy and temperament, its weight, flexibility and power. In our seminars and workshops we are proposing prefixed duo-material as well as free form with some specific physical limitations. Jozef Frucek Jozef Frucek graduated from the Music and Drama Arts Academy of Bratislava, where he also completed his PhD in 2001. As a dancer teacher and choreographer, he collaborates with the Dance Centrum Jette in Belgium, RITS Art School Brussels, DOT 504 Prague, Archa Theatre Prague, KVS-Royal Flemish Theater Brussels, SEAD- Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance, Budapest State Dance School. Since 2006 he is staff teacher at the Greek State School of Dance. Jozef has been a member of ULTIMA VEZ-Wim Vandekeybus (creations: Blush, Sonic Boom, movies: Blush). Currently, he works on the research program "Fighting monkey" (implementation of martial arts’ methodology on performance training and program for injury prevention). He has participated in major theatre and dance projects, experimental and research groups, has won award for new choreographers. He is a founding member of RootlessRoot, a company with which he created performance works, such as: "Sudden Showers of Silence", "Holdin Fast", the Installation "Burned tree is visiting Athens before next summer", "100 Wounded Tears", "UNA" (Unknown Negative Activity). www.rootlessroot.com Linda Kapetanea Linda Kapetanea graduated from the Greek State School of Dance in 1994. With a scholarship from the Greek National Scholarship Foundation, she later studied at the Merce Cunningham Studio, Movement Research and Dance Space in New York, where she also worked with choreographer Irene Hultman. In Greece, she danced with several companies, such as: Sine Qua Non, Horeftes, and others, touring extensively around Europe, while in 2002 she was awarded as "Best Performer"; Linda has been a member of ULTIMA VEZ - Wim Vandekeybus (creations: Blush, Sonic Boom, Pure, movies: Blush, Here After). During the last three years she has been frequently invited to teach at SEAD-Salzburg, Budapest State Dance School, Dance perfect studios (Prague) and DOT 504 (Prague). Since 2006 Linda is staff teacher at the Greek State School of Dance. She is a founding member of RootlessRoot, a company with which she created performances "Sudden Showers of Silence", "Holdin Fast", Installation "Burned tree is visiting Athens before next summer", "100 Wounded Tears", "UNA" (Unknown Negative Activity). www.rootlessroot.com