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“Every atom in your body came from a star that exploded, and the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics: You are all stardust.” Lawrence Krauss
We are wondrous beings made of stardust… Come celebrate the magic in us all at the start of the starry festive season. We’ll be calling in the spirit of Bowie and Beethoven, and discovering our very own rock and roll soul. At the Starry Ball live classical and improvised cello complements a sparkling mix of recorded tracks to bring us delightfully into presence and inspire our unique expression. Let’s ignite a sense of wonder at the expansive possibility of every moment… Channeling the energy and power of the shapeshifter in each of us.
5Rhythms Star: Emma Leech
Cellist Star: Ben Michaels
Mis-chief: Sarah Johnson
5RHYTHMS
The 5Rhythms are a map to everywhere we want to go - inner, outer, forward, back, physical, emotional, intellectual - they reconnect us to the wisdom of our bodies and unleash movement’s dynamic healing power. 5Rhythms transcends dance - movement is the medicine, the meditation and the metaphor. Together we peel back layers, lay our masks down, and dance till we disappear.
The 5Rhythms...
Flowing: fluid, supple, flexible, surrender.
Staccato: percussive, masculine, strong, boundaries.
Chaos: releasing, creative, intuitive, free.
Lyrical: rebirth, grounded, light, empowered.
Stillness: meditative, slow, wisdom, endings.
The fastest way to still the mind is to move the body.
https://www.5rhythms.com
EMMA LEECH
We are guided by Emma Leech, a highly experienced teacher who qualified with Gabrielle Roth nearly quarter of a century ago. "The 5Rhythms Movement and dance meditation is my life's work, I feel privileged to have been able to bring it to diverse communities. It has given me witness to the most profound depth and beauty in the artistic movement enquiry of human experience, both dark and light. I have been dancing the 5Rhythms movement meditation practice for over three decades. After diving into the practice for my own self-healing, I took the path as a teacher of the practice and trained with founder Gabrielle Roth, to teach in 2001. Since then, I have travelled to different parts of the globe and London’s suburbs taking the dance to a wide audience of disadvantaged communities - from prison, addiction recovery and youth at risk to children living in the slums of Kolkata, India. This disparate range of communities has become invaluable in expanding my teaching skills and insight into all walks of life, keeping me plugged into a reality of human survival where this dance can be of real service. My background is in the Arts, theatre and visual, my approach to the work of the 5Rhythms is inspired by my passion for the artistic and Soulful threads. I have the privilege of working and collaborating with Lorca Simons with her LiveWire theatre labs, and am working with actors in Rome and Naples, where I have been developing dancing communities over the past 8 years. But Penge is where I was born and my dancing began. I am so glad to be back teaching 5Rhythms at what was Royston Hall, where I ran Funky Fridays for five years from 2013. Penge is my roots."
BEN MICHAELS
A British cellist based in Crystal Palace, Ben Michaels is passionate about chamber and contemporary music. Most recently Ben premiered his project - for cello, by cellists - six newly commissioned solo works written by different cellist-composers. He was awarded the inaugural Keith Harvey Memorial Award by the London Cello Society (2022) in support of this project. 2024 included world premieres as part of Apartment House at Wigmore Hall, Ben echoing around Lightroom for an immersive David Hockney exhibition with music by Nico Muhly, performances onstage as a solo cellist for three-actor contemporary theatre and French baroque opera with the English Concert. Before exploring his passion for music, Ben studied Biochemistry at Clare College, Cambridge. Ben plays on a Gaetano Gadda cello, generously provided on loan by an anonymous benefactor.
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