Modern Dance Warm-Ups: Released Collapse

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 a released collapse to the floor to pulling out into plank position, something that I like to do when I am doing some release style dancing in modern dance. It is a great warm up so I'll show you in slow motion what I am going to do. I want this as released as possible and I want it to be momentum oriented. So it will be hard to do that in slow motion but I'll show you afterwards quickly. So first I'm going to drop to the ground. I'm going to think of the connection between my sits bones which are the two bones right here and my heels so I drop them together. Now I'm going to reach down with my hands and I'm going to run my hands out this way so that I end up in a plank position dropping my hips and reaching out with my head. Then I'm going to push my hands back and then I'm going to roll up to stand up so if I do that quickly it is going to be a collapse down and out and up. And the best way to get an idea of how to do this is to just do it over and over again. So I collapse and out and come in and up, collapse and out and see how my upper body is just kind of releasing into this position. You really want your upper body to just release, release so that is a really great way to really warm up your whole body and to find a nice connection between your sits bones to heels, tail bone to head while maintaining a released technique in modern dance."