5 Rhythms: Lyrical
REVIEW 1. The five rhythms method is a movement method opened to anyone and everyone. 2. The dance is comprised of 5 rhythms which allow dancers to identify and release obstructions in life. 3. The sequence of the rhythms creates a wave that allows the dancer to reach a point of inner stillness. The five rhythms or levels are: flow, staccato, chaos, lyrical and stillness. a) Flow is dancing at the level of unconsciousness . The unconscious mind consists of the processes in the mind that occur automatically and are not available to introspection, and include thought processes, memory, affect, and motivation.So flow is dancing automatically, with all we are or have become, with all our baggage. In Gabrielle Roth's words it is the "wild flower." (The term was coined by German philosopher Friedrich Schelling). In class, we used the Yang style 24 movement form to illustrate qualities of flow that could inform the movement vocabulary of the dancers (My sources are th...