Practicing For Longevity with Elke Schroeder
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Practicing For Longevity with Elke Schroeder

  • ALL AGES

We look to provoke instinctual movement, dynamic range and elastic capacity for power and mobility and use of imagination in training.

By Frog in Hand

Date and time

Saturday, December 7 · 12 - 3pm EST.

Location

Frog in Hand Productions Inc.

887 Hydro Road Mississauga, ON L5E 1E9 Canada

Refund Policy

Refunds up to 7 days before event
Eventbrite's fee is nonrefundable.

About this event

  • Event lasts 3 hours
  • ALL AGES
  • Free venue parking

Inspire by Fighting Monkey Workshop: Practicing for Longevity

Fighting Monkey is a longevity practice that values variability, adaptability and finding resilience by understanding our inherent relative fragility. It is a communication practice: how do we communicate with ourselves, with others, with the world at large?

Through curated “play under pressure” situations, we investigate strategies of observation, communication and learning and in this expand our movement capacity. These situations include improvisation/dance “tasks”, partnered movement situations, coordination sequences and relationship to tools/material objects.

FM practice is delivered in full complexity - we aspire to a full integration approach to practice and awareness.

For more information about the Fighting Monkey Practice and its founders, please visit: www.fightingmonkey.net


What to expect from the workshop

We look to provoke instinctual/reactive movement, dynamic range and elastic capacity for power and mobility and use of imagination in training. Failure is reclaimed as information as we play at the edge of impossible without crashing over.

What we will explore:

How to coordinate yourself in space and time. How to react and be creative. How to negotiate the space between us and work with external pressures. How to communicate with others. How we move as ourselves.

It will be sweaty. It will be hard. It will be easy. It will be fun.

No prerequisites for the workshop: it is for dancers, actors, visual artists, writers, athletes, martial artists, physiotherapists and everyone who’s interested in the above. Please bring appropriate clothes for moving.

About Elke

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.

IG: @elkebschroeder

www.elkebschroeder.com

Organized by

Frog in Hand began with a cast of frogs performing circus tricks under the artistic direction of two sisters, Noelle Hamlyn and Colleen Snell, who were one and five years old at the time. From this whimsical debut springs our firm belief that art begins in humble places – including the mud and grass of the backyard. Building on this modest foundation we have formed a diverse collective of dancers, fight choreographers, musicians, actors, spoken word poets, costume designers and visual artists who come together to create cross-disciplinary performances in unusual spaces. Our collective has national and international professional experience, having trained and performed in Canada (Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver, Montréal), the United States (Chicago, Miami, New York), Japan, China, Korea, India, Ireland, Israel, Australia and England. Frog in Hand has received commissions from the Canada Council for the Arts (2016), the Ontario Arts Council (2014/15/16/17), the Guelph Dance Festival, Hillside Inside Festival, Art Gallery of Ontario, Kitchener Waterloo’s Night/Shift, the Art Gallery of Mississauga, Ontario’s Culture Days, the Mississauga Waterfront Festival, Springboard Danse Montreal (2015) and the Banff Centre for the Arts. Frog in Hand has created and produced many dance works – mostly site specific projects incorporating theatrical and visual elements. We've worked in parks, gazebos, a public water fountain, staircases, an abandoned gun factory, an elevator, art galleries, street corners and various theatres. Frog in Hand incorporated as a not-for profit in 2016.