COVID-19 Protocols: TDT strongly encourages wearing a mask while at Winchester Street Theatre, but it is not required. Please do not attend in-person classes if you have a fever or are experiencing any other symptoms of COVID-19, have tested positive for COVID-19 within 10 days of the class, or have been in close contact with someone suspected or confirmed of having COVID-19.
About this Class
These classes will explore danced movement situations to expand movement variability, mobility, strength, dynamic range and bodily awareness, while remaining attuned to the Fighting Monkey principles of training for adaptability and longevity.
The classes will include FM coordinations and task-based choreography, tools/partnered training and improvisation led in the Fighting Monkey Practice style. Importantly: this is not a “fight” practice, rather we fight our monkey minds.
In FM coordinations and task-based choreography, we work with movement sequences delivered via a full-complexity approach in order to gain insight into our learning strategies and help uncover our movement blindspots. The coordinations also train 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 communication skills necessary for partnered dancing. In the improvisation work, we mine for variability: using the specificity of a task to tune bodily self-awareness and expand movement capacity.
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Fighting Monkey is a longevity practice that values variability, adaptability and finding resilience by understanding our inherent relative fragility. Through curated “play under pressure” situations, we investigate strategies of observation, communication and learning and in this expand our movement capacity.
For more information about the Fighting Monkey Practice and its founders, please visit: www.fightingmonkey.net