Video: Modern Dance Warm-Ups: Hip Isolations

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Moving the hips in small and big circles, learn to warm-up for modern dancing with hip isolation exercises in this free dance video from a professional dance instructor.

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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 be showing you how to do hip isolations the way that I would do them in modern dance. So basically we are just going to be pushing through the hips and making big circles as big as you possibly can, pushing your hip to the side, pushing it to the side and pushing it to the front and just making big circles. The rest of your body is just going to counterbalance what your hips are doing so you shouldn't just be going like this, you should be making big circles. Don't be scared to make it big. You are going to really loosen up this part of your body and warm it up which is great for modern dance or just any kind of modern dance so big circles, big circles. My knees are pretty straight this time, circles the other way and my upper body is kind of leaning back and forward but just to counterbalance what my hips are doing. I am going to fall down that way and you can swing them side to side as well to really get them warmed up and you can swing them back and forth as well to really get them warmed up. You are really stretching things out in your body and opening things up in your back, just move it freely just any way you want so you are really isolating that part of your body and getting it warmed up for the other kinds of things you are going to want to do in your modern dance routine and that's a great way to isolate your hips.

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Modern Dance Warm-Ups: Hip Isolations

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