Gabrielle Roth was a world-renowned theater director, movement innovator, recording artist, and best selling author of Maps to Ecstasy, Sweat Your Prayers, and Connections. Her award-winning recordings were on the cutting-edge of shamanic, trance-dance music.

For over 30 years, Gabrielle worked to heal the deadening split between spirit and flesh, though her own form of ecstatic dance, the 5Rhythms. Her international institute, The Moving Center/5Rhythms Global continues to oversee the teaching of her work throughout the world, and has personally trained and certified over 600 teachers worldwide.

Thousands of elders and young people, dancers and "dance phobics," those who can show off, and those who can barely show up, those with bad backs, bum knees, and wounded hearts, have all responded to the drumbeat of Gabrielle's call.