RHYTHMECALITY®

Find your rhythm!
Our learning method for dancers, dance trainers and dance teachers

Holger Nitsche and Jürgen Neudeck, successful dancers and dance teachers, present their unique RHYTHMECALITY®-method: Instead of getting lost in theory and counting, dancers should learn to feel the rhythm in their own bodies, hear it in the music and translate it into movement. In this way, they can later move confidently in tempo, in time and also in rhythm. This goal is achieved through improved listening and structured movement instructions. Using different sound and rhythm patterns, dance teachers and students can target deficits and train individual movement skills.

Dance teachers and dance sport trainers also receive a methodical structure for their lessons.

In the beginning was the rhythm

Everyone knows and experiences rhythm in their own individual way. Nevertheless, our senses are not stimulated enough rhythmically in our western world. While children still start to dance spontaneously when they hear music and feel a natural body rhythm, adults often find this difficult. It is easy to understand why Latin and North American as well as African sounds are particularly popular with us: These cultures have an organic naturalness to combine body rhythm with music, while so many of us have simply lost the feeling for rhythm.

What does rhythm mean - for RHYTHMECALITY®?

For us, a musical rhythm means the organic (physical) connection between harmonic sounds. In our book and CD series, we have created a structure in which special musical sounds are physically connected to the body rhythm of the dancer.

The problem today!

Dance students and dancers often fail to connect the basic steps, figures or choreographies with the essential rhythmic components of the music they are dancing to. Even advanced and well-trained dancers find it difficult to adequately translate the music into body movement. This is why "good" and comprehensible music material is needed, which, to our regret, there is far too little of. In our experience, many dance students have not yet learned to hear and feel the rhythm. We tend to count it out.

The RHYTH mottoMECALITY® reads:
"Forget counting and feel the rhythm!"

RHYTHMECALITY® in detail...


8 QUESTIONS AND 8 ANSWERS ABOUT THE RHYTHM CONCEPT RHYTHMECALITY®


1. what can I imagine under RHYTHMECALITY®?

It is a book and CD series that presents the five different Latin dances rhythmically.
The purpose of the RHYTH learning methodMECALITY® is about visualizing a given rhythm in the music in the dancer's body. A change in the sound should lead to a change in the body through various instruments. This means that the rhythm of the music is visually represented by the rhythm of the body.

2. what is the aim of RHYTHMECALITY®?

The absolute aim of the learning method is to be able to move confidently in the tempo, beat and rhythm of the respective dance later on. With our unique method, it is almost impossible not to be in rhythm!

3. how did the idea for RHYTH come about?MECALITY® come about?

We wanted to create a method that enables everyone to connect with the music and especially with the rhythm. The beginner was just as important to us as the top dancer. Both dance to the same music. That was our starting point.
Our experience has shown us that most dancers have never systematically learned to hear a rhythm in the music, let alone feel it. They tend much more to just count it.
However, it is very important that the focus is first on hearing, recognizing and experiencing rhythmic characteristics, rather than just the step pattern and the counting method. In order to prevent a mere counting approach, the CD included with the books contains individual or several different characteristic rhythms recorded by professional musicians. Our CD, with its various isolated sounds and special characteristic instruments, makes the respective rhythm pattern simple and easy to understand.
The most important basic rhythms of the individual dances are presented by different and characteristic instruments. Each individual instrument has a different sound. Different sounds motivate different movements. Consequently, each instrument and its sound stands for a certain body movement.
An intuitive interpretation can only take place when a fundamental, expanded understanding of the music with its various rhythms has been understood and felt.
Our method promotes skills to understand and develop the various facets of rhythm in music and body rhythm.

4. can RHYTHMECALITY® be used in other sports?

Definitely yes! It is our long-term goal to make RHYTHMETo introduce CALITY® with all its possibilities and facets to other sports.
We have already gained initial experience in skiing. There, for example, we were able to combine one of our samba rhythms with deep snow skiing.
Golf is also a very exciting sport for us. You have to be able to adapt your rhythm to the prevailing conditions. Whether it's a tee shot, bunker or putt, all shots have their own body rhythm. However, we are still very much at the beginning here. But we want to take on this interesting challenge because we are firmly convinced that RHYTHMECALITY® also offers added value for many other sports.

5. which concept is used in the RHYTHMECALITY® method for use?

The heart of RHYTHMECALITY® is our Rhythmusttraffic light.
With our Rhythm Rampel, with the colors Green, Yellow and Red you are shown simple step-by-step pictures (Green level) via a voltage change (Gelblevel) through to coordination (Red level).
RHYTHMECALITY® is a product for beginners through to top dancers. The recreational dancer experiences the rhythm of the individual dances with his partner. They can enjoy the music and their partner without stress. Top dancers are given a concept to help them control the speed of their choreography even better and take their presentation to a higher level.
Through RHYTHMECALITY® teaches the body to think and the mind to feel!

6 What was the biggest challenge in the RHYTH project?MECALITY®?

The biggest challenge from the outset was to create a system that could describe the music and the corresponding body movement. Although there are excellent textbooks in dance sport, these are only intended specifically for trainers and judges as a basis for their training. They describe all the technical skills in the individual dances. The reference to music and rhythm is not in the foreground.
There is also fantastic music, but you need a lot of experience and an understanding of music as a prerequisite.
So we first had to do some pioneering work here to develop a method that does justice to both. And after a very time-consuming 14-year development period, we have succeeded in doing just that. Our results, especially in the early stages in dance schools and in a dance sports club, have always triggered a real wave of enthusiasm. RHYTHMECALITY® is a fantastic introduction to feeling and experiencing dances with a dance partner. It's exactly what Salsa, Argentine Tango and the currently popular West Coast Swing are all about!

7. hen or egg?

We are convinced that the dancer is first dominated by the rhythm before the rhythm can be dominated by the dancer.

We are very aware of the fact that both the dancer and the music have their own rhythm. From our point of view, however, it is the temporal coincidence/synchronization of both components. We want the dancer to first visualize the rhythm in the music and then translate this given rhythm into the body.
This approach is the clear and legible basis for RHYTHMECALITY® to visualize and illustrate music and movement. Building on this basis, the dancer can use his/her own rhythm, although in RHYTHMECALITY® method is not in the foreground.

8. what does the ME at RHYTHMECALITY®?

RHYTHMECALITY® is a term of art designed by us. The ME represents the center.

I have no body.
          I BIN THE BODY!

I create no rhythm.
          I BIN THE RHYTHM!

I BIN RHYTHMECALITY®!

RHYTHMECALITY® is a method in which You than the ME gain more knowledge. This leads to You perform and experience the dance better.

That is what RHYTH is and stands forMECALITY®!