Combat Dance X Fighting Monkey Workshop

What is Combat Dance?

Combat Dance focuses on developing connections between the Mind and Body through playful improvisation, which aims to foster creativity and reflexivity. Finally, it involves understanding and collaborating with the human structure developed over thousands of years of evolution to preserve the health of the musculoskeletal system and enhance body efficiency. These are the areas form the foundation of Combat Dance, and they are essential for dancers to master to become proficient in this art form.

What is Fighting Monkey?

FM Practice research is centred around communication, physical dexterity and creative thinking and moving to be capable of solving real life problems and thrive in life.

Practice should have 3 fundamental building blocks to offer you capacity to cope with changing and challenging lives we live:

• FEEDBACK You need appropriate feedback, to recognise and inform you that you are in trouble.
• CORRECTION Practical tools to correct those errors.
• BETTER PLANNING It should provoke creativity and ingenuity to keep the window of plasticity open. This allows you to keep learning and improving your knowing and responding, and helps you to plan and prepare better for an enjoyable future.

Timings:

5pm - 9pm

Pricing:

₹3500 (EarlyBird for first 10 participants)

₹4500 (Normal Pricing Both Day Pass )

₹2500 (Single Day Pass)

About The Teachers 

Jakub Zeman (Czech Republic)

Jakub is a practitioner and educator from Czech Republic with a background in martial arts, capoeira, dance and sports. Since 2015 he has been studying closely with Linda Kapetanea and Jozef Frucek within the Fighting Monkey. Movement and dance as the essential means of human communication, expression and development form the core of his research and teaching. As a FM teacher he is looking how to create a meaningful practice and practical philosophy that will be supporting us in our ever changing life circumstances.

Shifu Ash (India)

Shifu Ash is a dance movement researcher, philosopher, choreographer & visual artist based in Mumbai, India. His expertise lies in movement practices such as Wing Chun, Aikido, Modern Contemporary Dance, Ballet and Contact Improvisation with an experience of 20 years. He is also a former member of CID-UNESCO Paris (International Dance Council) and the founding member & CEO of ProDancer.

As a movement practitioner he has trained with number of masters like: Grandmaster IP Chun, Nancy Stark Smith, David Zambrano, Frey Faust, Sara Shelton Mann, Kira Kirsch, Andrew De Lotbinière Hardwood, Akram Khan, Desmond Richardson, Era Jouravlev, Stephanie Godino, Terence Lewis, Mia Michael, Sonya Tayeh, Anjelika Doniy, Danny Ezralow,  Ohad Naharin… to name a few.

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He has been invited to teach at some of the prestigious dance festivals & companies in India & abroad like Impulstanz Vienna International Dance Festival, Goa Contact Festival, Portugal Contact Festival, Goa Dance Residency, Berlin Contact Festival, Contact Meets Contemporary Festival Goettingen, Tokyo Nomadic Residency, Chinchintalu Festival Dubai, Divadlo Studio Tanca, Henny Jurriens Studio Amsterdam, Terence Lewis Contemporary Dance Company, Dance Perfect Prague, Nritya Shakti, Institute Of Classical & Modern Dance India, Saint Petersburg Conservatory Dance, Radi Sveta Art, SDVIG Studio Saint Petersburg, etc.

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In the year 2021 Shifu Ash was titled  "The Saint Beast" by the International Martial Arts Federation Japan and was also featured as the cover artist for the martial art magazine Jissen. His current project involves choreographing for an upcoming feature film in India and co-curating a dance festival called Partner Dance Festival.