Jozef Frucek & Linda Kapetanea
Fighting Monkey

Fighting Monkey Monkey is totally fascinated by the realm of the senses; It swings from one desire to the next, one conflict to the next. If you threaten it, it actually fears for its life. Let this monkey go Let the senses go Let desires go Let conflicts go Let idea go Let the fiction of life and death go Just remain in the center, watching. And forget you are there. Hua Hu Ching Partnering is for us The Way of Emptying and Listening and has been developed to cultivate and stimulate the body in a “dragon’s pool”. Dragon’s pool symbolises the importance of development and cultivation of our self in the midst of the world. Using difficulty and danger to develop strength, adaptability and test again what is possible in partnering. We will crash ourselves into joy oriented fighting and dancing to rediscover our forgotten mental and physical potentials. We will use one or several partners to create surprising, complex and unusual movement situations where we will activate a firing process that wakes up our primitive/intuitive body, our form without a form. Through applying elements of the martial arts we will try to enrich our movement material and create a deeper understanding of: How to meet more effectively and adaptively the forces, which are acting on us and how we can avoid or absorb them, while being functionally open. How we receive, carry and manipulate others in high-speed as well as in slow motion. How we go along danger and difficulty still being able to cultivate our inner strength and stability. And ultimately, how to foresee events before they happen. 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, Dies De Dansa, Dansa Deltebre, Helsinki City Theater. 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 and has won awards for upcoming 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), “Drawing a Tiger Like a Dog”. Their choreographic work has been nominated for Total Theater Award 2008, and they have received the Herald Angel Award 2009. 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 and work at SEAD-Salzburg, Budapest State Dance School, Dance perfect studios (Prague) and DOT 504 (Prague) Dies De Dansa, Dansa Deltebre, Helsinki City Theater. 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", the installation "Burned tree is visiting Athens before next summer", "100 Wounded Tears", "UNA" (Unknown Negative Activity), “Drawing a Tiger Like a Dog”. Their choreographic work has been nominated for Total Theater Award 2008, and they have received the Herald Angel Award 2009. www.rootlessroot.com