Practicing For Longevity with Elke Schroeder

Frog in Hand is hosting a movement workshop with Elke Shroeder!

Join us as we practice how to react, and be creative, negotiate the space between us and work with external pressures.
Let’s practice how to communicate with others, and move as ourselves.
This is for dancers, actors, visual artists, writers, athletes, martial artists, physiotherapists… and everyone who’s interested.
Suggested age 18+.

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.

What to expect from the workshop

It will be sweaty. It will be hard. It will be easy. It will be fun.
The workshop is based on Fighting Monkey Technique. Fighting Monkey (also called FM), is a longevity practice, and a communication practice: how do we communicate with ourselves, with others, with the world at large? Through “play under pressure” situations, we learn strategies of observation to expand our movement capacity. These situations include improvisation, partnering, coordination sequences and use of tools/objects. For more information about the Fighting Monkey Practice and its founders, please visit: www.fightingmonkey.net

Please bring appropriate clothes for moving, and bring layers as our space can be warm or cold depending on the weather.

Learn more about Elke:
IG: @elkebschroeder
www.elkebschroeder.com