Video: Modern Dance Chain Turn Variation

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A variation of the chain turn in modern dance leads with the head instead of the hip. Learn a chain turn variation with tips from a professional dancer in this free modern dance video.

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Hi, my name is Chell Garcia-Trias, and I'm a modern dance instructor in Austin, Texas. I'm going to show you a variation on a chain turn that I like to do. Normally, with the chain turn I like to lead with my hips, but with this I'm going to lead with my head. So, I'm going to start with my legs, pretty far apart, but in parallel, I'm going to bend the knee that's leading me, in the direction that I'm moving, and I'm going to lead with my head, I'm going to kind of snake my head around and back, so that it brings me around myself, then I'm going to go the other way. So, it's a little swivel turn that keeps moving in this direction, one leg and then the other, one leg and then the other, but it leads with the head and then it comes through my hips also. So again, I have the front leg bent, back leg straight, I lead with my head and my hips come around too, head and hips. So, that's a really simple way to do a chain turn leading with the head, that I like to do and that I learned to do in modern dance.

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Modern Dance Chain Turn Variation

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