Jonathan Horan is Gabrielle Roth’s son and closest collaborator.
He has been immersed in the 5Rhythms® throughout his life and continues to be a key catalyst in its evolution.
From the mountains and oceans of Big Sur to the skyscrapers and theatres of NYC, I grew up in extremes and learned a deep respect for the wilderness that is both nature and human nature. When I was nine, I participated in my first 5Rhythms workshop — my grandfather was dying, my mom was very fragile and I was worried about her so I hung around. I fell in love with the work, the rhythms, the people, the freedom and the discipline. By seventeen, I had dropped in fully and I have done almost every workshop Gabrielle has taught in the last twenty-five years. I follow in her dancing footsteps as student and teacher and am committed to keeping the fire of her core teachings alive.
Katrina McPherson and Simon Fildes are recognised in Scotland and internationally as leading artists making dance for the screen. Both separately and as a team, Katrina and Simon have considerable experience in the artistic, education, commercial and broadcast arenas.
Award-winning artist Katrina McPherson has been creating screen based dance for over 20 years. Since she graduated from the Laban Centre in London and post-graduate degree in Electronic Imaging at DJCAD, Dundee University, she has gained wide experience as a dancer and choreographer, as a director of television arts programmes for the BBC, ITV and Channel 4 and as a video dance-maker. As director and camera-operator, she has collaborated with many different dance artists and companies, both in Scotland and abroad. Her works are regularly screened at international festivals.
In 2002, Katrina was awarded the Scottish Arts Council’s Creative Scotland Award to research and write a workbook !Making Video Dance – a step by step guide to creating dance for the screen.” (Routledge, 2006). Katrina also has considerable experience for teaching video dance and related subjects, both practical and academic, to a wide range of people, from the under 10′s to graduate university level and has led master-classes and workshops in UK, Germany, China, USA and Australia Katrina has also written various published journalistic articles and is much sought after as a public speaker on the subject.
After completing a Biology degree, Simon Fildes (McPherson) turned away from science, going on to complete an arts post-graduate in Electronic Imaging at DJCAD. More recently he has gained a Master of Science degree with distinction, in sustainable development through UHI. Simon’s wide ranging technical, creative and personal skills have enabled him to work as editor, production manager and assistant director, also in technical support, new media, project management, and community development. Simon is a respected editor of dance films and arts documentaries. This work has taken him filming and teaching from Ardnamurchan to Addis Ababa, Hong Kong to Sydney. Simon has given many public lectures, led workshops and chaired debates from Beijing to Buenos Aires, Den Haag to Shenzhen. He has written for various publications in the field of dance on screen.
Simon has edited and co-produced on most of the video works directed by Katrina including international award-winning videos such as ‘Moment’ and !There is a Place”. In 2006 he was short-listed for the £30,000 Creative Scotland Awards; has received a range of arts funding and commissions; exhibiting new media artworks in galleries, site specific locations, and undertaken a range of artist in residency commissions including being selected for Scotland!s Year of the Artist programme in 2000. Other collaborations with Katrina include interactive works made for hyperchoreography.org, and the highly successful international award-winning Move-me.com project. a touring interactive video dance installation and website.
They are the co-directors of Goat Media Ltd, www.go-at.co.uk living in rural Nairnshire, Highland Scotland with 3 children and 3 chickens.
www.go-at.co.uk
Sophy Hoare: I went to my first yoga class in 1970 at the former Dance Centre in Floral Street, Covent Garden. The teacher was Penny Nield-Smith, a student of B.K.S. Iyengar. Penny mainly taught large classes for the London adult education authority and never taught ‘advanced’ postures, but she taught a great deal about attention and awareness.
After six years, Penny encouraged me to start teaching and I attended classes with several other Iyengar teachers to expand my practice. I had a strong desire to free my body of its limitations but I never discovered a way which satisfied me. It was as though I was searching for an elusive or non-existent key.
In 1991 I met Vanda Scaravelli who invited me to become her student. In my first lesson I knew immediately that Vanda was offering me this key. After that I visited her in Italy once or twice a year to learn how to work with the principles she had discovered in her own practice. At Vanda’s house I met Diane Long and recognised in her practice the same freedom that I saw in Vanda. I invited Diane to teach me and my students in London and since then we have been meeting regularly to practise and teach together.
www.sophyhoare.co.uk
Robert Anderson is an independent dance artist based in London. Since 2001 Robert has been teaching and facilitating contact improvisation classes, jams and workshops in London. Robert has taught at international contact festivals in Germany, Israel, Poland, Sweden, Russia and Italy and participated in co-teaching gatherings in Estonia, Finland, Scotland and Austria. In teaching dance improvisation Robert seeks to help students find a deeper connection with the body and our modes of perception. The somatic movement techniques he offers enable students to study the physical forces of gravity, momentum and friction and utilize them artfully in their dancing, both in and out of contact with others. His classes encourage a state alertness and openness and invite a sense of pleasure, play and poetry for the dancing body.
Deborah Jay-Lewin Deborah Jay-Lewin has spent more than 20 years combining her passion for 5Rhythms with her deep love of the spiritual principles she has learnt whilst living in the Findhorn Community in Scotland. She teaches regularly in Scotland, Europe and South-East Asia. Her workshops are known for being full of vitality, open heartedness and a unique approach that awakens transformation. Deborah is engaged in ongoing study with Gabrielle Roth and is certified to teach both Waves ® and Heartbeat® levels. www.vitalmoves.co.uk
Karl Jay-Lewin is a professional dance artist who has been choreographing, teaching and promoting dance for over 13 years. His curiosity and fascination with the intelligence and physicality of the body is central to all his work. He is Artistic Director of Bodysurf Scotland and lives at Findhorn.
