Video: Modern Dance Warm-Ups: 1st Position Plié

Work the lower back, hamstrings and knees with plies. Learn to warm-up for modern dancing with a first position plie exercises in this free dance video from a professional dance instructor.

Video Transcript

Hi my name is Chell Garcia-Trias and I am a modern dance instructor in Austin, Texas and I am going to show you how to do plies in first position the way that we would do them in modern dance. So first of all we need to find first position and the way we are going to do this is we are going to bring our feet together and then I'm just going to open my toes up. I'm going to bend my knees and open my toes up to where I feel comfortable. So I'm not going to first any kind of turn out. I'm not going to force my feet by shifting them one and then the other. I'm just bending my knees, opening them up and standing up. They do not have to be very much turned out at all. This feels comfortable to me so what I'm going to do now is I'm going to bring my stomach muscles in kind of like I have a zipper that is zipping up through my stomach and I'm dropping my tail bone, my lower back down and I'm going to bend my knees and I'm going to make sure that my knees are tracking my toes and that is a plie. So I'm tracking my toes and I'm keeping my back aligned and upright and I'm tracking my toes. There is no beginning or end to a plie, it is just continually moving, continually moving. Since it is modern dance I'm just going to let my arms rest at my sides. I want to make sure that my knees are tracking my toes so they're not here, that is not going to be good for my knees and they're further back then my toes either they're tracking my toes, plie, plie. So that's the way that we would do plies in first position in modern dance.

Modern Dance Warm-Ups: 1st Position Plié

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