Rather than big, easy-to-follow, repeating gestures as sometimes arise in Lyrical, we skittered down chains of intricately arranged repeating patterns, which would then shift and re-configure, taking form then never landing for long enough to be defined or understood. Our dance featured some bursting and chasing gestures, too. I would rise up on my highest toes, reaching for his height, wanting to be expansive along with him, then squiggle myself down and away. He laughed at my antics, joining in, too. After this long, intricate, layered exchange, we finally ended up doing the initial assignment—a simple repetition—grinning wildly as we both realized it, rocking back and forth.
TAGS: 5 rhythms, 5Rhythms, Chaos, Conscious Dance, gabrielle roth, Lyrical, Medicine Dance, Meghan LeBorious, moving meditationDear Friends, As you probably know, the music we make is basically loosely-structured rhythm rides, deeply centered around percussion in all its forms. We don’t use percussion to drive …
TAGS: 5 rhythms, 5Rhythms, 5Rhythms OneTribe, 5Rhythms Teacher Association, 5Rhythms Teachers Association, 5RTA, Chaos, Conscious Dance, dance movement therapy, ecstatic dance, gabrielle roth, jonathan horan, Medicine Dance, movement medicine, Open floor, Raven, Raven Recordings, shamanic dance, Staccato, sweat your prayers, The Moving Center, the moving center school, Wavesby Kate Shela “Just be here now, because we don’t know!” Occupy from Kate Shela on Vimeo.
TAGS: 5 rhythms, 5Rhythms, 5rhythms one tribe, 5Rhythms Teacher Association, 5RTA, Conscious Dance, dance movement therapy, gabrielle roth, Kate Shela, Occupy, Open floor, shamanic dance, The Moving Center, the moving center schoolIn 2012, 2 days after Gabrielle Roth passed away, 5Rhythms teacher and UK ambassador for Women for Women International Neda Nenadic walked to Everest Base Camp to raise money for …
TAGS: #danceanywhere, #danceeverywhere, 5 rhythms, 5Rhythm Teacher Association, 5Rhythms, 5Rhythms OneTribe, 5Rhythms Teacher Association, Chaos, Conscious Dance, Cycles, dance movement therapy, ecstatic dance, everest, five rhythms, Flowing, gabrielle roth, Lyrical, Medicine Dance, meditation, moving meditation, Neda Nenadic, Open floor, shamanic dance, Staccatoby Ros Howell, East Sussex, United Kingdom If Motherhood is a Cathedral built on the sweat of millions of unseen lives, then the 5 Rhythms are one of the few …
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