How to dance one corner

I am sure that all people love to dance. However, many believe that they do not have an ear for music or a sense of rhythm, not enough plasticity or coordination to dance, call themselves a “tree” and sit quietly in the corner at a disco. And yet, only a small proportion of them are right (and even then not in the part about the “tree”). Often the problem lies precisely in the ability to feel the music, in particular, the rhythm. But the problem is solved! For most people, the sense of rhythm is dormant. And only a very small percentage suffers from “rhythmic deafness”.

In my dance teaching practice, sometimes I come across people who can't hear the rhythm. For a group of fifteen people, there are on average 1-2 people. Agree, not such a big percentage for non-professionals. But this is where I ran into trouble. How to explain to a middle-aged person without a musical education what a strong and weak beat is, why sometimes we perform movements on “three”, and sometimes on “eight”, and how to count a piece in general? . . I think all teachers face this problem, It doesn't matter if they work with young children, youth or adults.

First you need to figure out if the student actually hears the music. First, you can clap a short, simple rhythm and ask him to repeat it. If the student reproduced it in full, then all is not lost! Secondly, you can turn on the music and step along with it, setting the pace. Then you need to pause, talk about something so that he is distracted, and turn on the same music again and ask him to walk to it in the same rhythm without you. There may be several options:

- the student walked to the beat, because he remembered the rhythm when you walked to the music together. And it's not a bad choice! Perhaps he needs to pay a little more attention than the others, stand next to him and show the movements individually, in the end his memory and great desire will bear fruit.

- the student walked in his rhythm, not hearing the music. Here the matter is more complicated. With such people, you need to deal with individually or gather them in one group and make a lesson in musicality for them. One or two sessions may be enough.

In such lessons, you need to explain what a strong beat is in music, how a melody is broken down into measures. Of course, you need to be patient, and most importantly, read music theory if you are not strong in it. In fact, it is not so scary, because the rhythmic pattern in the music school is studied in the lower grades. On the other hand, it is not necessary to overload the brain of students with this theory. Just think of a few metaphors. Rhythm can be compared with the beating of our heart, with clocks, with steps. Everything has its own rhythm - the moon and the sun, the surf, the seasons, a poem, the noise of a train, and even the sounds of a cricket. For such activities, you need simple, understandable music with a clear rhythm, for example, a march or, oddly enough, club music, with a characteristic “tuna-tuna”. The duration of notes can be compared with seconds, minutes, hours.

By the way, using the example of a march, you can easily learn to hear a strong beat. I would suggest using this particular march http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGfGxqHPF0s

In it, you can clearly hear how all the instruments of the orchestra play on a strong beat. I think that your students of any age will walk this melody with pleasure, and most importantly, to the beat!

A good helper in mastering the rhythm will be a metronome. Moreover, now everyone can install it on their smartphone or tablet and train at any time! By the way, the metronome is successfully used in the treatment of stuttering, and this says a lot.

In fact, I believe that anyone can learn to hear music and dance to it. All it takes is motivation. He works wonders even with the most seemingly hopeless students.

If the desire to learn to dance is great, follow a few simple but effective tips:

1. Listen to more music. Even more! Listen to it in any free minute. Learn almost by heart the pieces you need to dance to.

2. Divide music into instruments. The whole orchestra never plays the same tune. Double basses or bass guitars always set the rhythm, the main part is given to the violins or the voice, etc. Yes, it requires high concentration and attention, but it is really effective!

3. Learn to use a metronome.

And remember, only working out the technique will not bring results. Love music, learn to hear it in the world around you, eventually become music, and then you will succeed!

© Arina Grakhantseva

What are the evolutionary mechanisms of the bee dance?

The dance language of honey bees is considered one of the most complex forms of animal communication. Bees dance on vertical honeycomb plates in the darkness of the hive. The angle formed by the axis of the dance and the vertical corresponds to the angle between the direction towards the food and towards the sun. The honey bee uses the force of gravity, and not all of its near and distant relatives can do this.

As the sun moves to the west, the axis of the dance turns counterclockwise. The speed of the waggling phase of the dance corresponds to the distance between the food and the hive. The distance to the source of food is interconnected with 11 parameters of the dance: duration, tempo, number of belly wiggles, and duration of sound signals.

A scout bee brings to the hive traces of a scented substance from the flowers she has visited. Worker bees gather in a crowd around the dancing insect and not only read the figures of the dance, but also remember the smell. This is necessary in order to later recognize it when they are near the place where the nectar is located.

Researchers examine the evolutionary mechanisms of the origin of dance by analyzing the ways in which species of the genus Apis and related species (melipona stingless bees and bumblebees) attract attention to food. In dwarf bees and the large Indian bee (genus Apis), the combs are arranged openly and horizontally, in one layer. Their dance is simpler than that of the honey bee. They use the sun as a guide. However, the bees cannot convert the angle between it and the feeder into a wagging angle with respect to the direction of gravity. If you experimentally make them dance on a vertical surface, the signals will become chaotic.

Closest to honey bees are dances of Asiatic bees (genus Apis). They nest in closed cavities - hollows, rock crevices. Probably, the evolutionary direction that led to the prosperity of honey bees lay in the way of building nests in closed cavities, complicating and clarifying the communication system, and the ability to use the force of gravity in the dark. Prosperity, first of all, lies in the large number of families, their ability to exist for many years and collect food from large areas. In the genus Apis, the champions are honey bees: there are up to 80 thousand of them in the hive.

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