Modern Dance Chain Turn

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name is Chell Garcia-Trias and I'm a modern dance instructor in Austin, Texas. I'm going to show you a chain turn. So, the way that I do a chain turn, is I start with my legs pretty far apart, they're in parallel and my front leg, or the leg that's leading is bent. I'm going to push with my tail bone to bring myself around in a circle and to do a half turn. And my back foot, the foot that's straight is going to slide across the floor like this, and then I'm going to do the other leg, so it's like a little chain, it goes one way and the other. One way and the other. And it's just sliding, swooping across the floor and it's really leading with the tail bone. One, and the other, one and then the other. So that's a really simple way to do a chain turn, you really want to make sure that your upper body is still straight, that you're not collapsing on yourself, that you still look nice, you can drop your arms to the side or you can hold them this way so that the straight leg has a bent arm and the bent leg has a straight arm. One, two. So that's a very simply way to do a chain turn that I like to do in modern dance."