Modern Dance Warm-Ups: Collapsed Turn

Video Transcript

"Hi! My name is Chell Garcia-Trias and I am a modern dance instructor in Austin, Texas. I am going to show you how to do a collapse to the floor with a turn. So, I will show you in slow motion. What we are going to do is we are going to tuck our toe under and we are doing to drop down to our knee. And then, I am going to roll around my bottom to my other knee. So, I will put my hand down. I will roll around to my other knee and then, I am going to stand right back up. With momentum, that will be really easy. So, I am just going to drop to the floor. Roll around and come back up. So, I tuck my toe under. Drop and come up. And, I am going to do it again, kind of quickly. So, here we go. Drop and come up. If I want, I can add a little handstand to that. Not a real like balanced handstand, but just a little hopping handstand. So, I will do a little slow. I will drop down. Come around. I am going to plant this foot and I am going to push through my other heel and come up. So, if I did that quickly I would tuck my toe under. Drop down and around. Plant my foot and come up. One more time the other way. I am going to tuck my toe under. Go down and around. Plant my foot and come up. So, that is a collapsed turn and a collapsed turn with a little jump the way that I would do it in modern dance."