In the late 1970s, dance took on new dimensions. Dance as an art form became a means of healing internal and external traumas and injuries. Gabrielle Roth's interest in this aspect of dance movement was inspired by her own experience of depression and knee pain. After several years of research, she discovered a new method and called it the 5 Rhythms Method. She labelled them fluid rhythm, staccato, chaos, lyrical rhythm and silence. Together they form a wave, which is the sum of all five. Each dancer moves through the fluid rhythm and staccato to reach the climax, which occurs in chaos, from there the movement rolls out in a lyrical, creative rhythm and finally settles in deep silence. The whole wave begins with circular, undulating patterns in the flowing rhythm, in the staccato there are spasmodic, rapid and jerky movements, in the chaos there is an uncontrollable mixture of everything, in the lyrical rhythm there are interesting and ornament-like figures, which in the rhythm of deep silence conclude in a deep breath and a calm being of the body. The main thing in all the rhythms is that the dancer surrenders to his inner nature and lets the body move freely with unrestrained and uncontrolled movements. Spontaneous expression strengthens and stimulates the human imagination and creativity. The 5 Rhythms Method is practised by trained teachers all over the world. They are trained in dance, visual arts and music. As part of my master's thesis, I first tried my hand at the charcoal-on-paper technique, and then we set up an art workshop where the children drew a whole wave. While they were creating, I gave them verbal guidance, and in the background, they were accompanied by drum rhythms recorded by the founder of the 5 Rhythms Method herself. The results shown in the research show that the students took some time to fully relax, and when they reached that level, you could see their charcoal sliding freely across the picture surface. I analysed the drawings at the end using visual variables and I can say that there are similarities between certain rhythms from the different series. This suggests that the 5 rhythms theory of dance-movement training applies to the visual arts as well and has a meditative effect on the students as well as on the adults.
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