Video: Modern Dance Shoulder Stand

A shoulder stand in modern dance requires balancing on one shoulder with legs in the air. Learn a shoulder stand with tips from a professional dancer in this free modern dance video.

Video Transcript

Hi, my name is Chell Garcia-Trias, and I'm a modern dance instructor here in Austin, Texas. I'm going to show you how to do a shoulder stand the way that I like to do them in modern dance. So, first what we're going to do is we're going to roll onto our shoulder. You want to have a little momentum, so you can really get up there. So it'll be hard for me to describe it slowly, but I'll describe it first and then I'll do it for you. So, you'll roll onto your shoulder, you're going to lay this whole part of your body onto the ground. I've got my arm at a right angle. And then I'm going to push with that arm onto my shoulder, and I'm going to put this arm here, and I'm going to lift my legs up off the ground. So, with a little bit of momentum, you'll really get up there. So I'm going to roll over and come up. And now I can straighten my legs out any way I want--I can spread them out wide, I can bring them up high, you can do any pretty little pose you want to do while you're here. And then gently come back down. So that's a shoulder stand, and it might take a little bit of work, but I'm sure you can do it, and it's a fun way to get up on your shoulder, and something nice to do when doing modern dance.

Modern Dance Shoulder Stand

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