DistantNews
Support us
🇦🇷 Argentina /Culture & Society

At 44, Argentine Woman Left Business Administration to Teach the Art of Dancing Through Chaos at Di Tella’s MBA

From La Nación · () Spanish

Translated from Spanish and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

At a glance

In-depth Named sources Context piece
  • Brenda Cohen moved from studying business administration and managing an olive farm to teaching the 5Rhythms movement practice.
  • She says existential questions and a sense of emptiness led her to coaching and eventually to dance.
  • Cohen began practicing 5Rhythms in 2007 and started formal teacher training in 2015; she is scheduled to appear at Bienestar Fest on Oct. 24.

Brenda Cohen is 44 and convinced that people shape their own lives. Her path has taken her from business administration classrooms to managing an olive-oil farm, and finally to dance and the 5Rhythms practice she now teaches.

She says existential questions followed her from childhood. “I always had concerns and existential questions. What is life, what is its meaning?” she recalls. She completed a business degree even without feeling strongly drawn to it, then spent three years managing an olive-producing farm. The work was easy and gave her independence, but she felt a persistent emptiness.

I always had concerns and existential questions. What is life, what is its meaning?

· Brenda CohenShe describes the questions that shaped her path before turning to dance.

“I felt a certain emptiness in my daily life. I felt I had something to give and that I had to find another path, but I didn’t know which one,” Cohen says. Her interest in people, travel and connection eventually led her to study ontological coaching at a school in Chile. During that process, she discovered 5Rhythms.

I felt a certain emptiness in my daily life. I felt I had something to give and that I had to find another path, but I didn’t know which one.

· Brenda CohenShe explains why managing an olive farm did not satisfy her despite offering independence.

Cohen began practicing in 2007 and started a year-long teacher-training program in 2015. She still remembers her first class, where people danced freely while following guidance and support. “I felt freedom in my body, and I challenged myself to move however I wanted. That’s when I said: there is something here.”

She describes 5Rhythms, created by American dancer Gabrielle Roth in the 1960s and 1970s, as a map of creative processes in nature and the human body. Classes move through Flowing, Staccato, Chaos, Lyrical and Stillness. Cohen says the method is not scientific truth, but a way to observe oneself. She will appear at Bienestar Fest on Saturday, Oct. 24, while also teaching the practice through Di Tella’s MBA program.

I felt freedom in my body, and I challenged myself to move however I wanted. That’s when I said: there is something here.

· Brenda CohenShe recalls the first 5Rhythms class that began her training.
About this summary

Originally published by La Nación in Spanish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

More Stories

From Our Blog