User:Rosencomet/Gabrielle Roth

Gabrielle Roth is a musician, author, music director, dancer, philosopher and recording artist in the world music and trance dance genre's, with a special interest in shamanism. Known as the "urban shaman," she is music director of the theatre company The Mirrors, and has been a member of the Actor's Studio. She is the founder of the recording label Raven. She has been a faculty member of both Kripalu and the Esalen Institute, and offers classes at the Omega Institute, often joined by her son, Jonathan Horan. Her international institute, The Moving Center, oversees the teaching of her work through schools in New York, California, and Europe, and has certified over 250 teachers worldwide. She is currently teaching experimental theater in New York based on The Roth 5 Rhythms™ and training others to use shamanic methods within artistic, education, and healing contexts. She is also the author of three books, and her work has been featured in Self, Elle, Mademoiselle, Bazaar, Donna Karan's Woman to Woman, Utne Reader, New Age Journal, Body Mind Spirit, Shape Magazine, Fitness and many other national publications.

Gabrielle Roth and the Mirrors
Roth performs and records as Gabrielle Roth and the Mirrors, and has produced over 15 albums and appeared on various compilations. Longtime Mirrors regulars include drummers Sanga of the Valley (a student of master Nigerian drummer Babatunde Olatunji) and Roth's husband and producer Robert Ansell. Over the years, other contributors have included composer/guitarist Lenny Kaye (of the Patti Smith Band); Allison Cornell on strings (of Joe Jackson and Pat Benatar); Jai Uttal (Indian fusion musician); space music composer Raphael; and percussionists Gordy Ryan, Arthur Hull, and Cyro Baptista (of Paul Simon and Laurie Anderson, and of the band Beat the Donkey).

Articles

 * Body Mind Spirit, March-April, 1998.
 * Women's Sports and Fitness, January-February, 1999.

Artists profiles & biographies

 * Omega Institute Faculty Profile
 * Sounds True Author Profile
 * Biography in Musicians' Guide by Gerald E. Brennan
 * Biography by Carol Wright, All Music Guide
 * Imuzic Artist Profile

Reviews

 * New York Times Review of "Dances of Ecstasy" Video
 * New York Times Review of "Secret Egypt" Video
 * Hot Indie News Review of CD "Still Chillin'"

Interviews

 * Ambient Visions interview with Gabrielle Roth
 * Sounds True Interview with Gabrielle Roth
 * Movement Matters: An Interview with Gabrielle Roth by V. Wade Contreras - Beyond Mainstream

Albums

 * Still Chillin'
 * Bardo
 * Tribe
 * Refuge
 * Zone Unknown
 * Stillpoint
 * Tongues
 * Luna
 * Trance
 * Waves
 * Ritual
 * Bones
 * Initiation
 * Totem
 * The Raven Classics - 4 CD Boxed Set
 * Endless Wave
 * Endless Wave 2
 * Music for Slow Flow Yoga
 * Music for Slow Flow Yoga 2

Video

 * The Wave
 * The Power Wave
 * The Inner Wave
 * Ecstatic Dance Trilogy
 * Dances of Ecstasy
 * Open Floor: Dance, Therapy & Transformation
 * Secret Egypt