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5Rhythms[1] is a movement meditation practice devised by Gabrielle Roth in the late 1970s.[2] It draws from indigenous and world traditions using tenets of shamanistic, ecstatic, mystical and eastern philosophy. It also draws from Gestalt therapy, the human potential movement and transpersonal psychology. Fundamental to the practice is the idea that everything is energy, and moves in waves, patterns and rhythms.

Roth describes the practice as a soul journey, and says that by moving the body, releasing the heart, and freeing the mind, one can connect to the essence of the soul, the source of inspiration in which an individual has unlimited possibility and potential.

The practice

The practice of the 5Rhythms is said by Gabrielle Roth to put the body in motion in order to still the mind. The five rhythms (in order) are Flowing, Staccato, Chaos, Lyrical and Stillness.[uspto 1] The 5Rhythms, when danced in sequence, are known as a "Wave." A typical Wave takes about an hour to dance.[3]

Longer workshops may, according to The Dancing Path, explore emotion, the cycle of life, the ego, relationships and spiritual vision.[4]

The 5Rhythms Maps

The work is taught through a series of maps that explore the terrain of the inner and outer worlds of individuals, their relationships to others and the space around them. The maps offer a soul journey by exploring embodiment, emotions, the life cycle, the psyche, and the archetypes. The rhythms offer understanding of people's innate powers – being, loving, knowing, seeing and healing.[5]

The first map, "Waves" teaches embodiment of the five distinct rhythms. To embody the rhythms means to access the deep internal wisdom that human bodies contain. The "Heartbeat" map teaches how people have embodied and how they express the emotions of fear, anger, sadness, joy and compassion; while the "Cycles" map provides insight and understanding about how one has internalized conditioning and relationships throughout the life cycle, specifically in the stages of birth, childhood, puberty, maturity and death. Insight and understanding of the ego is delivered through the psyche map, "Mirrors".[5]

Roth drew a circular "Medicine Mandala" that related each rhythm to an emotion, a stage of life, a way of perceiving, and an aspect of the self.[6]

The elements of Gabrielle Roth's "Medicine Mandala"[6]
Rhythm Emotion Stage of life Way of perceiving Aspect of self
Flowing Fear Birth Being Body
Staccato Anger Childhood Loving Heart
Chaos Sadness Puberty Knowing Mind
Lyrical Joy Maturity Seeing Soul
Stillness Compassion Death Healing Spirit

Schools and teachers

Roth founded The Moving Center[7] in New York in 1977 as a base for her workshops, and to train and develop teachers.[8] 5Rhythms Global [9] was founded in 2013 as the international Institute training 5Rhythms teachers worldwide. The 5Rhythms Teachers Association[10] was founded in 2007 as a professional association serving the continuing education of accredited 5Rhythms teachers. The 5Rhythms movement spread worldwide, and in 2017 there were 396 certified teachers and SpaceHolders[11] in 50+ countries.[12]

5Rhythms teacher training is recognised by the International Conscious Movement Teachers Association (ICMTA), and graduates and teachers in training are eligible for membership in ICMTA.[13]

Reception

Charlotte Macleod, writing in the London Evening Standard in 2009, describes dancing the 5Rhythms as a kind of antidote to life in a large city, and how she was attracted to a dance class by a video of Thom Yorke. The class leaves her "mentally and physically refreshed, and oddly connected to the other dancers." The dance was "a kind of moving meditation" for her.[14]

Christine Ottery, writing in The Guardian in 2011, states that "ecstatic dancing has an image problem" and "encompasses everything from large global movements such as 5Rhythms and Biodanza to local drum'n'dance meet-ups". She suggests that readers may "find 5 Rhythms a good place to start", and does so herself: "Nervously, I stretch and warm my muscles. As the rhythms take off, I shake off my shyness." She dances in different ways, alone or with partners. "My body is expressing itself - it's utter abandonment and a complete high."[15]

Jed Lipinski, writing in The New York Times in 2010, notes that 5Rhythms is suitable for all ages, unlike some other forms of dance and movement. He observes that "At a recent 5Rhythms class ... in Manhattan, more than 100 people were gleefully writhing and leaping to tribal drumming courtesy of Ms. Roth's husband, Robert Ansell... Dancers occasionally released guttural howls, as if exorcising the demons of the workweek."[16]

The Daily Telegraph writes of 5Rhythms in 2007 that "I love it precisely because it isn't based on learned steps. Instead, the idea is to find your own dance by moving your body in whatever way you fancy. For those of us keen to improve our fitness, it can also be an energetic aerobic workout."[17]

Research

Academics working in mental health and other fields are starting to carry out research about the 5Rhythms. The Mental Health Foundation, a UK charity published the 'Dancing for Living Report' describing a group of women's experience of 5Rhythms dance and the effects on their emotional wellbeing.[18] The 5Rhythms have been the subject of PhD theses.[19][20]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ USPTO Registration # 4840073 European Union (https://euipo.europa.eu/eSearch/) Registration # 014276281

References

  1. ^ "Trade mark number EU005669874". Intellectual Property Office. Retrieved 18 February 2019. Trade mark Dates Filing date 07 February 2007 Date of entry in register 27 March 2008 Renewal date 07 February 2027
  2. ^ North, Madelaine (20 February 2005). "TALK OF THE TOWN: Just do it Rhythm is a dancer". Independent on Sunday.
  3. ^ Gabrielle Roth. Maps to Ecstasy, 1989.
  4. ^ "The Dancing Path". 5 rhythms global. Archived from the original on 12 September 2012. Retrieved 28 January 2012.
  5. ^ a b "The Maps of the 5Rhythms". 5Rhythms. Retrieved 18 October 2018.
  6. ^ a b "Gabrielle Roth's 5Rhythms". 5Rhythms. Retrieved 18 October 2018.
  7. ^ "The Moving Center NY".
  8. ^ 5Rhythms: Moving Center New York. Retrieved February 4, 2014
  9. ^ "5Rhythms Global". 5Rhythms.com.
  10. ^ "5Rhythms Teachers Association".
  11. ^ "5Rhythms | 5Rhythms Sweat SpaceHolder Program". Retrieved 2017-07-14.
  12. ^ "Find A Teacher". 5Rhythms Global. Retrieved 16 October 2016.
  13. ^ "Join ICMTA". International Conscious Movement Teachers Association. Archived from the original on 2016-10-17.
  14. ^ Macleod, Charlotte (April 6, 2011). "Thom Yorke and the new 5Rhythms dance craze". London Evening Standard. Retrieved March 17, 2012.
  15. ^ Ottery, Christine (21 July 2009). "Ecstatic dance: rhythm to beat the blues". The Guardian. Retrieved March 18, 2012.
  16. ^ Lipinski, Jed (4 August 2010). "Dance, Dance, Dance. And That's It". Fashion and Style. The New York Times. Retrieved 9 June 2012.
  17. ^ unattributed (6 January 2007). "Feel the rhythm from head to heal". Telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 1 July 2012.
  18. ^ Cook, Sarah; Ledger, Karen; Scott, Nadine (2003). "Dancing for Living Report: Women's experience of 5 Rhythms dance and the effects on their emotional wellbeing". Sheffield: UK Advocacy Network.
  19. ^ Juhan, Andrea (2003). Open floor: dance, therapy, and transformation through the 5rhythms. Unpublished Ph.D. thesis, Union Institute and University Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences. OCLC 60710012.
  20. ^ Hogya, Anne Marie (March 2004). "5Rhythms in the Workplace: Exploring Movement as a Corporate Training Approach" (PDF). Royal Roads University. Retrieved March 17, 2012.

Bibliography

External links

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Gabrielle Roth
Born(1941-02-04)February 4, 1941
DiedOctober 22, 2012(2012-10-22) (aged 71)
NationalityAmerican
Occupation(s)Dancer, musician, author
Known for5Rhythms, trance dance
SpouseRobert Ansell[1]

Gabrielle Roth (February 4, 1941 – October 22, 2012) was an American dancer and musician in the world music and trance dance genres, with a special interest in shamanism. She overcame depression and injury to create the 5Rhythms approach to movement in the late 1970s; there are now hundreds of 5Rhythms teachers worldwide who use her approach in their work. Her vision was to spread dance across the world, using the power of movement to heal body and spirit.

Roth worked at the Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health and at the Omega Institute for Holistic Studies. She founded an experimental theatre company in New York, wrote three books, created over twenty albums of trance dance music with her band The Mirrors, and directed or has been the subject of several videos.

Early life

Born in San Francisco on February 4, 1941,[2][3] Roth described being inspired by the dance of Spanish gypsy La Chunga and by seeing the Nigerian National Ballet. She trained in traditional dance methods, suffering from anorexia during her teenage years. Roth paid for college education by teaching movement in rehabilitation centres. Following college she lived and worked in Europe for three years, during the mid 1960s. During this time she visited the concentration camps memorials in Germany that she had studied during college.[3]

Roth injured her knee in a skiing accident in Germany and later again in an African dance class. At 26, she was told that she needed surgery and wouldn't dance again and resigned herself to the prognosis.[3] She became seriously depressed and later retreated to Big Sur in California, joining a group at the Esalen Institute. She became a masseuse there, and found that her body healed itself through dance, despite what the doctors had said. Gestalt psychiatrist Fritz Perls asked her to teach dance at the Esalen Institute and she set out to find a structure for dance as a transformative process. Out of her work at Esalen she designed the 'Wave' of the 5Rhythms approach, Flowing, Staccato, Chaos, Lyrical, Stillness.[3][4]

Career

The Culture Project set up home in the Manhattan Ensemble Theatre alt=Theatre building

Roth was a faculty member at The Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health in Stockbridge, Massachusetts and taught at the Omega Institute for Holistic Studies in Rhinebeck, New York. She trained for three years with Oscar Ichazo, founder of the Arica School and set up her own experimental theatre company in New York City.[3]

The Moving Center teaches her work through her school in New York; it has certified over 400 5Rhythms teachers worldwide. She taught experimental theatre in New York based on her ecstatic dance approach, 5Rhythms. Roth was music director of the theatre company The Mirrors and has been a member of the Actors Studio. Roth directed theatre productions of Savage/Love, by Sam Shepard and Joseph Chaikin, at The Culture Project in Mercer Street, New York City.[5] She founded The Moving Center School in 1977 in New York.[6]

Roth wrote three books: Sweat Your Prayers: Movement as Spiritual Practice, Maps to Ecstasy: Teachings of an Urban Shaman, and Connections: The 5 Threads of Intuitive Wisdom. Sweat Your Prayers, begins with an autobiographical prologue, "God, Sex, & My Body", in which she writes of the contradictions in her personality that led her to dance. She comments, "I loved to work out my body but I hated the mirrors".[7] She notes that she was taught by Catholic nuns "with eyes trained to scan for sin"[8] and that her first dance teacher was "an old woman with frizzy dyed red hair, a funny accent, and a long thin stick" who would beat her whenever she made a mistake, initiating in Roth a severe inferiority complex.[8] In college, she became pregnant. She found her lover insensitive to the news and had an abortion three days later.[9] Roth writes that she felt the importance of privacy to her kind of dance while teaching at Esalen in a room "lined with picture windows". Passers by would stare in during sessions. Roth comments, "this was tragic, as the majority of my students were paralytically self-conscious when it came to moving their bodies."[10] She noticed that her students had difficulty breathing.[10] Her book Sweat Your Prayers ends with her vision of spreading dance across the world, the power of movement "leading us back into the garden [of Eden], back to the earth, whole and healed, spirit and flesh reunited".[11]

With the Mirrors

Roth performed and recorded with her group Gabrielle Roth and the Mirrors, producing over 20 albums.[12] YogaChicago described Roth's album Jhoom as "pure energy and bliss. Intense rhythms".[13] Hot Indie News described Still Chillin as "without question yoga music" that "lends to an ambient, trance-like, meditative state".[14] Awareness Magazine wrote that the music pulsed, "creating a rhythmic aura that transports the listener", in a way that was perfect for yoga.[15] Michael Riversong wrote of "Silver Desert Cafe" on Tongues that "I always dance when it comes up".

Roth and the Mirrors provided music for Michelle Mahrer's film, Dances of Ecstasy, in which Roth has an acting credit, appearing as herself.[16] The New York Times review noted that "Whirling Dervishes from Turkey, Orisha Priestesses from Nigeria and Brazil, shaman healers from the Kalahari and dancers in a Gabrielle Roth workshop in New York, pulse to the same beat".[17]

5Rhythms

The 5Rhythms movement system, founded by Roth in the late 1970s, focuses on five body rhythms: flowing, staccato, chaos, lyrical and stillness and is according to Jed Lipinski in The New York Times "a way to become conscious through dance".[18] The movement spread worldwide, with 245 registered teachers by 2012.[19][20] In 2007, Roth founded the non-profit 5Rhythms Reach Out which offered classes in 5Rhythms to various groups, including those suffering from Alzheimer's disease, other dementias, and cancer.[21] The Huffington Post described Roth as "an incredibly influential teacher of meditative dance".[2] Charlotte Macleod, in the London Evening Standard, describes dancing Roth's 5Rhythms as a kind of antidote to life in a large city, and how she was attracted to a dance class by a video of Thom Yorke. The class leaves her "mentally and physically refreshed, and oddly connected to the other dancers." The dance was "a kind of moving meditation" for her.[22] Christine Ottery, in The Guardian, states that "ecstatic dancing has an image problem" and "encompasses everything from large global movements such as 5 Rhythms and Biodanza to local drum'n'dance meet-ups". She suggests that readers may "find 5 Rhythms a good place to start", and does so herself: "Nervously, I stretch and warm my muscles. As the rhythms take off, I shake off my shyness." She dances in different ways, alone or with partners. "My body is expressing itself – it's utter abandonment and a complete high."[23] The 5Rhythms have been the subject of academic study.[24][25]

Personal life

Roth was married to Robert Ansell.[1] She was diagnosed with stage four lung cancer in 2009 and died on October 22, 2012, aged 71.[26][27] Roth's son, Jonathan Horan, is Director of The Moving Center, and Executive Director of Roth's International Institute, 5Rhythms Global.[28]

Works

Books

Music

Raven Recordings
  • Jhoom (The intoxication of surrender) (Raven, 2009)
  • Bardo (with Boris Grebenshchikov) (Raven, 2002)
  • Tribe (Raven, 2001)
  • Refuge (with Boris Grebenshchikov) (Raven, 1998)
  • Zone Unknown (Raven, 1997)
  • Tongues (Raven, 1995)
  • Luna (Raven, 1994)
  • Trance (Raven, 1992)
  • Waves (Raven, 1991)
  • Ritual (Raven, 1990)
  • Bones (Raven, 1989)
  • Initiation (Raven, 1988)
  • Totem (Raven, 1985)
  • Endless Wave 1 (Raven, 1996)
  • Endless Wave 2 (Raven, 2000)
  • Music for Slow Flow Yoga (Raven, compilation, 2002)
  • Music for Slow Flow Yoga 2 (Raven, compilation, 2003)
  • Stillpoint (Raven, compilation, 1996)
  • The Movement (Raven, compilation, 2001)
  • The Classics (Raven, 4 CD compilation, 2004)
Other producers
  • Dancing Toward the One / Sacred Rock (1982) The Moving Center
  • Pray Body (1983) The Moving Center
  • Path: An Ambient Collection (1995) Windham Hill Records
  • Conversations With God: A Windham Hill Collection (1997) Windham Hill Records
  • Still Chillin (2005) Aquarius International Music

Television and video

  • I Dance the Body Electric (1993)
  • Secret Egypt (1995) Mystic Fire Video (Directed by Sheldon Rochlin)
  • The Spiritual Path to Success (1997) Quest special on PBS (now part of the Quest Life Trilogy, only available in the Quest Wisdom Collection).[29]
  • Sukhavati: A Mythic Journey (1997 [music]) [DVD 2005] for Joseph Campbell Foundation and PBS (produced, directed, and edited by Maxine Harris and Sheldon Rochlin).
  • The Wave: ecstatic dance for body and soul (1993) Sounds True VHS (DVD in Germany (Nietsch, Freiburg) 2000, USA 2004).
  • The Power Wave (2001) Sounds True. VHS (DVD in Germany (Nietsch, Freiburg) 2000, USA 2005)
  • The Inner Wave (2001) Sounds True. VHS (DVD in Germany (Nietsch, Freiburg) 2000, USA 2005)
  • Ecstatic Dance Trilogy (2004) Sounds True.
  • Dances of Ecstasy (2003) [featuring: Michelle Mahrer, Nicole Ma and Gabrielle Roth] BBC/Opus Arte
  • Open Floor: Dance, Therapy & Transformation (2002) Raven Recording.
  • The Great Lesson: A New Film About Mind and Body: Featuring Gabrielle Roth. Great Lesson Productions.(2012)

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Peabody, Martha (2012). "In Memoriam: Gabrielle Roth". Esalen Institute.
  2. ^ a b "Gabrielle Roth Quotes: Inspirational Words To Remember The Meditative Dance Teacher". The Huffington Post. October 25, 2012. Archived from the original on October 28, 2012. Retrieved October 26, 2012.
  3. ^ a b c d e Albert, Mimi (March 23, 1991). "Teachings of an Urban Shaman". Yoga Journal (November/December 1990): 70–73.
  4. ^ La Cerra, Peggy (January 1, 2012). "Dance ecstasy: the art and science of dancing into Nirvana". Spirituality & Health Magazine.
  5. ^ Guzel, Jim (August 16, 2011). "Friday, August 19th: 5Rhythms with Margaret Wagner". Archived from the original on March 22, 2012.
  6. ^ 5Rhythms: Moving Center New York. Retrieved February 4, 2014
  7. ^ Roth, Gabrielle. 1997. pg. xix.
  8. ^ a b Roth, Gabrielle. 1997. pg. xvi.
  9. ^ Roth, Gabrielle. 1997. pg. xviii.
  10. ^ a b Roth, Gabrielle. 1997. pg. xxi.
  11. ^ Roth, Gabrielle. 1997. pg. 217.
  12. ^ "Discography: Gabrielle Roth". AllMusic. Retrieved June 7, 2023.
  13. ^ Yoga Chicago: Music Review Archived March 31, 2013, at the Wayback Machine May 2000. Retrieved March 16, 2012
  14. ^ Hot Indie News: Still Chillin' Archived February 8, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, September 2007. Retrieved March 16, 2012
  15. ^ Dilberto, Chuck (2000). "Music Reviews". Awareness Magazine. No. Jan/Feb 2000. Retrieved March 16, 2012.
  16. ^ Roth, Gabrielle; Mahrer, Michelle; Ma, Nicole (March 31, 2009). Dances of Ecstasy: A Sensory Journey Though Rhythm, Dance And Music (DVD). Kultur. D0873.
  17. ^ "Movies". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. 2010. Retrieved March 20, 2012.[dead link]
  18. ^ Lipinski, Jed (August 4, 2010). "Dance, Dance, Dance. And That's It". The New York Times. Retrieved March 7, 2012.
  19. ^ "5Rhythms Global: List of Member Teachers". Archived from the original on September 12, 2012. Retrieved March 7, 2012.
  20. ^ For example, Nadine Fiume, Adam Barley, Gay Murphy, and Margaret Wagner Archived March 22, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
  21. ^ "5Rhythms Reach Out". Retrieved October 24, 2012.
  22. ^ Macleod, Charlotte (April 6, 2011). "Thom Yorke and the new 5Rhythms dance craze". Evening Standard. Retrieved March 17, 2012.
  23. ^ Ottery, Christine (July 21, 2009). "Ecstatic dance: rhythm to beat the blues". The Guardian. Retrieved March 18, 2012.
  24. ^ Cook, S., Ledger, K., Scott, N. (2003) Women's experience of 5 Rhythms dance and the effects on their emotional wellbeing (Book) Pubs U.K. Advocacy Network, Sheffield.
  25. ^ Practical Midwife. 2007 March 10(3): 20, 22–3. The ecstasy of spirit: five rhythms for healing. Henley-Einion A. University of the West of England.
  26. ^ Simon, Tami (April 10, 2012). "Dancing with Cancer, interview with Gabrielle Roth". Sounds True. Archived from the original on February 2, 2013. Retrieved October 24, 2012.
  27. ^ Horan, Jonathan A. (October 23, 2012). "Gabrielle Roth 1941–2012". Facebook. Retrieved October 24, 2012.
  28. ^ "5Rhythms: Jonathan Horan". Archived from the original on March 20, 2023. Retrieved June 7, 2023.
  29. ^ Quest The Journey

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