INSPIRE BY FIGHTING MONKEY
Class Description

How do we move, if we don't know what tomorrow brings? How do we create and relate to environments that are characterised by dynamic change?
Classes are centered around physicality — how much we know about our adaptive potential and our behavioural tendencies when facing physical tasks. We will look at forms as emerging properties of sustained attention, and through that explore physical and cognitive constraints.
The training draws from movement situations, coordination, and rhythmic engagement to establish a dialogue between "you with you," "you with others," and "you with the environment" — deepening awareness of how we move.

Questions we attend to:
How we observe. What we observe. And how responsive we are, in physically demanding environments driven by artistic expression.

Teaching is inspired by the Fighting Monkey Practice, developed by Jozef Fruček and Linda Kapetanea.

Julian was born in Hannover, Germany. He has worked as an educator and teacher throughout Europe for professionals and hobbyists alike in the last 10 years. He studied Movement Arts from a young age onwards, branching from spiritual and martial arts practices outwards to the performance and dancing Arts. From Eastern style practices in Nepal, Taiwan & Thailand, to contemporary dance and movement practices in Europe, his development has been guided by his natural curiosity towards the world’s different cultures.

Julian is a recurring Teacher for the Professional Dance scene in Hamburg at K3, and taught aspiring professionals internationally at ĀDAŽU NOVADA MĀKSLU SKOLA, Lithuania. His professional teaching is guided by his ongoing development within Jozef’s Frucek & Linda Kapetaneas Teaching, with whom he has been studying and developing in Reoccuring Mentorship for the last 7 years. He performed for Barbara Bess’ Performance Lab ‘Inner and Outer Landscape’ and in her work ‘Synapses’, shown at the 24th International Figuren-Theaterfestival in Nürnberg-/ Fürth, Germany. His Latest REsidency 2025 at Paleohori, Lefkada, Greece and his Residency in Hamburg via DFDK centered around Dance as a Reflective life Practice.

Apart from his practical and Artistic work, Julian has finished his Academic degree Bs. Sc in Psychology with his Thesis work on “Kinetics and Cognition: Perception of Dance in Time”, studying The perception of mOVEMENT IN Stravinskys *The Rite of Spring*.