Modern Dance Warm-Ups: Head Isolations

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 how to do some head isolations the way that I would do them in modern dance. So what I'm going to do is imagine that I have a flashlight at the top of my head and I'm going to draw circles on the ceiling like this. So it is not along the wall, I'm not going to tilt my head, I'm going to keep my head parallel to the ground while I move it around in circles so that I'm doing circles on the ceiling. I find that it helps me a little bit if I have my hands on my hips and I have my feet a little bit wider or about hip's width apart actually and sometimes I'll bend my knees a little bit too. So I'm just going to make little circles on the ceiling with my head and I'm going to try and drop my shoulders while I am doing this and I'm going to reach out with my chin when I'm doing it and I'll switch directions at some point so that I'm doing them both ways. This is a great way to get some flexibility in your neck and to warm up your neck before you do different things in modern dance. So those are some simple head isolations in modern dance. Don't be worried if you can't do it right away, you just have to do it real small and work on it and let it grow and you too will be doing head isolations."