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Movement research practice
developed by Linda Kapetanea & Jozef Fruček. Linda Kapetanea and Jozef Frucek are the founders of Fighting Monkey Practice.

They are both professionally involved in art, athletics and movement research. Since 2002 Linda and Jozef have been developing the Fighting Monkey Practice through a deep study of cross motion analysis, with the aim to understand principles of human movement, communication and the ageing process.

13/09/2026

Make the belt move.
Never stop.
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UPCOMING FM WORKSHOPS
→ fightingmonkey.net/upcoming-workshops/

Amsterdam | 26, 27 September
Istanbul | 3, 4 October
Milan | 17, 18 October
Athens | 28, 29 November
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08/09/2026

Improve your balance
while being unstable.

As you move, observe your
mobility, stability, and openness.
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UPCOMING FM WORKSHOPS
→ fightingmonkey.net/upcoming-workshops/

Shanghai | 2, 3 September
Shenzhen | 5, 6 September
Beijing | 12, 13 September
Amsterdam | 26, 27 September
Istanbul | 3, 4 October
Milan | 17, 18 October
Athens | 28, 29 November
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06/09/2026

What happens when movement science, physics, engineering, haptics, computational life science, and neuropsychology meet inside a living practice?

Together with André Seyfarth, Philipp Erben, Lucia Seminara, Benedetto Piaggio, and Katerina Fotopoulou, we used FM Practice as a shared laboratory to explore one question:

How can embodied practice strengthen agency, adaptability and empowerment in mental health?

Stay tuned!
—
/ André Seyfarth. Head of the Institute of Sport Science at TU Darmstadt and Founder of Movement Academy.

/ Philipp Erben. Professor at the University of Linz (Austria) working in Transformation research: computational life science and experimental medicine, Mannheim, Heidelberg University (Germany); Chairmen: Movement Dialogues Association.

/ Lucia Seminara. Physicist focusing on haptic technologies and human-human/robot interaction. Founder of TACTA and HYBRID (integration of humans and machines).

/ Benedetto Piaggio. Engineering Researcher at the University of Genoa, focusing on the design, modelling, and control of dynamic systems.

/ Katerina Fotopoulou. Professor at UCL, London, working at the crossroads between physical and mental health.

03/09/2026

UPDATE ALERT

Our November workshops in Tokyo and Chuncheon
have been postponed to 2027.

Come join us in one
of our other upcoming cities.
—
UPCOMING FM WORKSHOPS
→ fightingmonkey.net/upcoming-workshops/

Shanghai | 2, 3 September
Shenzhen | 5, 6 September
Beijing | 12, 13 September
Amsterdam | 26, 27 September
Istanbul | 3, 4 October
Milan | 17, 18 October
Athens | 28, 29 November
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01/09/2026

MILAN CALLING
Upcoming FM Physical workshop

EMBODIED INTELLIGENCE
Where creativity will compose
new actions in real time,
and turn surprise into advantage.

17 & 18 October 2026
Milan, Italy
—
Control, fixed forms, and protocols
are myths of the tired.
We choose another route.

We train perception, not perfection.
We move to understand what moves us.
We embrace the unstable,
turn mistakes into orientation,
use dialogue as calibration,
uncertainty as a teacher.
—
Book your spot
→ https://bit.ly/4ftospk
—

30/08/2026

Zero Forms
can also be described as mapping,
gaining a clearer idea of
how we coordinate ourselves through
movement and how movement
in many ways affects our thinking,
cognition, relation, and communication in general.

When beginning to map the process
you might feel pain in places
you had never felt pain before, you discover
the limitations and actual age of your joints.
It might be unpleasant at first
but you keep exploring.
You become aware of tensions
and you try to release them.
—
UPCOMING FM WORKSHOPS
→ fightingmonkey.net/upcoming-workshops/

Shanghai | 2, 3 September
Shenzhen | 5, 6 September
Beijing | 12, 13 September
Amsterdam | 26, 27 September
Istanbul | 3, 4 October
Milan | 17, 18 October
Tokyo | 14, 15 November
Chuncheon | 21, 22 November
Athens | 28, 29 November
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27/08/2026

Experiment with
various sequencing orders, and
unexpected connections
to expand your creative thinking,
enrich your movement vocabulary
and your ability to search
and create movement materials
that respond to the context
and the situations you are part of.
—
UPCOMING FM WORKSHOPS
→ fightingmonkey.net/upcoming-workshops/

Shanghai | 2, 3 September
Shenzhen | 5, 6 September
Beijing | 12, 13 September
Amsterdam | 26, 27 September
Istanbul | 3, 4 October
Milan | 17, 18 October
Tokyo | 14, 15 November
Chuncheon | 21, 22 November
Athens | 28, 29 November
—

25/08/2026

ISTANBUL CALLING
Upcoming FM Physical workshop

EMBODIED INTELLIGENCE
Where imagination will anticipate
what's coming and play with prediction.

3 & 4 October 2026
Istanbul, Turkey
—
Control, fixed forms, and protocols
are myths of the tired.
We choose another route.

We train perception, not perfection.
We move to understand what moves us.
We embrace the unstable,
turn mistakes into orientation,
use dialogue as calibration,
uncertainty as a teacher.
—
Book your spot
→ https://bit.ly/4hon0Hh
—

23/08/2026

Various degrees of
(un)predictability of motion
and trajectories can greatly
support the development of
a better informational bond between
the organism and the environment.
—
UPCOMING FM WORKSHOPS
→ fightingmonkey.net/upcoming-workshops/

Shanghai | 2, 3 September
Shenzhen | 5, 6 September
Beijing | 12, 13 September
Amsterdam | 26, 27 September
Istanbul | 3, 4 October
Milan | 17, 18 October
Tokyo | 14, 15 November
Chuncheon | 21, 22 November
Athens | 28, 29 November
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20/08/2026

Creativity is not given.
It is cultivated.

Creativity is an emergent property
of the brain's capacity to flexibly combine, inhibit,
and reorganize patterns of perception,
memory, and action—to generate novel,
adaptive outcomes.
—
UPCOMING FM WORKSHOPS
→ fightingmonkey.net/upcoming-workshops/

Shanghai | 2, 3 September
Shenzhen | 5, 6 September
Beijing | 12, 13 September
Amsterdam | 26, 27 September
Istanbul | 3, 4 October
Milan | 17, 18 October
Tokyo | 14, 15 November
Chuncheon | 21, 22 November
Athens | 28, 29 November
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