Modern Dance Warm-Ups: Jump Hangover Swing

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 a hangover swing with a jump and a lift in the sternum the way that I would do it in modern dance. So we start with a hangover swing, we're reaching up with our top of our head and we're imagining a waterfall coming over out of our head to bring us to the swing. We're reaching up with our arms and we swing down here. Now I have a nice curve in my stomach and in my upper back, and I bend my knees and when I straighten my arms come back. Now I'm also going to jump when my knees straighten so I go up and over, I bend my knees, I jump, and my arms are coming up to the back, my arms are lifting to the back that's helping me with my jump. And I swing back up, I criss cross my arms in the front while I reach up with my sternum. So it looks something like this. Up and over jump, down, lift in the sternum. Up and over jump, down, lift in the sternum. So if I did it a little slower which you don't want to do, you want it to have some momentum, but it's going up and over, bend your knees jump and straighten, bend your knees to bring your arms down, criss cross your arms and lift in the sternum, and bend your knees and come up with your arms. That's a great way to do a hangover swing with a jump and a lift in the sternum. The way that I would do it in modern dance."