Hip Hop Dance Warm-ups: Hip Circles & Pops

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Emily Larew, and we are going to start continuing to warm up our hips, going front and back, side to side in a circular motion. So we're going to start feet apart, knees bent, with your hips. Now I want you to really focus--you are going to release your back and kind of open your chest a little bit, but it's all from the hips down. Okay, not adding your torso and your ribcage. So what we're going to do is I want you just to take it front and back. Isolating it, front and back. And what I'm doing is I'm contracting my pelvis in just like you did with your ribcage, but I'm also releasing it--release your booty back, so you have a nice arch in your back. So from the side I'm going front and back, front and back, front and back, and you're kind of like why are we doing this? And it's going to help you when you do other hip hop combinations and motions. Pancakes, chickens, to be able to move your hips as well. So, let's move them back and forth. Here we go. Five, six, seven, so we've got one, two, three, four, just the hips are moving. Let's take it side to side. So we're just going to go hips side to side. Now keeping your knees bent you want to hit all the way over, farthest you can to the right and left. Don't do this, because you're not going to be able to read this. So make sure it's sharp. Right, left, right, left, right. Left, right, left, right, left. Again, right, left, right, left, right, and left, right, left, right, left. So, now that we've done our range of motion to the front and back and side to side, let's circle it around. So, keeping your knees bent, we're going to go front, side, back and to the front. That's to the right. Right, two, three, and four. Let's try left. Five, six, seven, and eight. Again, one, two, three, and four. Keeping your knees bent, let's try a little faster, to the right and to the left. Here we go. One, two, three, four, left, six, seven, eight. Good job. And that was hips circling around and your pops and isolations front and back side to side."