Video: Modern Dance Warm-Ups: Hangover Swing

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Dropping the head and shoulder, bend the knees and swing back and forth. Learn to warm-up for modern dancing with hangover swing 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 show you how to do a hangover swing in Modern Dance. So what we're going to do is we're going to let our head and our shoulders come up and over like a waterfall and kind of collapse while we swing, we bend our knees, bend your knees and swing your arms around. And they're going to swing all the way back to where they're comfortable and they're going to swing back again. And once they come up they're going to criss cross in the front and then come back to the sides, up and around and down. So it looks something like this. I'm going to start with my arms up, drop my head and shoulders and up, criss cross. Dropping my head and shoulders, criss cross. And I'm really bouncing my knees, my knees is what's making the action happen, my knees and the dropping of my head, my knees and dropping of my head. And it's really important that I think the whole time of adding space between the vertebrae in my spine. I'm really growing, I'm getting taller here. So it's up and over, up and over, and swing and up tall, tall, tall. Up and over and swing and tall. This is going to add a lot of warmth to your back. It's really going to warm up your upper body and it's going to warm up your legs since you're doing some nice deep plie there too. So that's how you do a hangover swing in Modern Dance.

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Modern Dance Warm-Ups: Hangover Swing

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