Fighting Monkey Practice – Earthquake Architecture

Try. Play. Change roles. Lead. Follow. Struggle. Adapt. Study. Work with what you have and who you are. Physics. Anatomy. Adaptability. Imagination. Curiosity. Creativity above all.

Improvisation and creativity are vital to any kind of problem solving, and problem solving is vital for survival. On stage and above all in life. Life rarely happens on cue, according to script or as you expect. It is turbulent, always dynamic and unpredictable. It happens in context. It’s complex.

Fighting Monkey is an open practice and a long-term research programme on human movement, created and taught by RootlessRoot, the duo of Jozef Frucek and Linda Kapetanea. Fighting Monkey examines the basic condition of life, which is survival, with its related fundamental skills: creativity, adaptability and knowledge. Fighting Monkey is about reconnecting with the most essential principles that give birth to movement and lead us to more functional relations with the complex environment we live in. Fighting Monkey practice is based on developing an earthquake architecture for the body. Through a series of complex movement situations and games designed by RootlessRoot, the body is exposed to pressure and irregularity, develops observation skills, and increases neuroplasticity, resilience and energy which lead to better survival strategies, enhance improvisation and creativity.