Video: Modern Dance Warm-Ups: Side Developé

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Tone the core and leg muscles with side develope. Learn to warm-up for modern dancing with develope exercises in this free dance video from a professional dance instructor.

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Hi! My name is Chell Garcia-Trias and I am a modern dancer and instructor in Austin, Texas. I am going to show you how to do some developes to the side, the way I would do them in modern dance. So, even though it is modern dance, we are going to do it in first position. We do use first position in modern dance. So first, I want to take my feet, bring them together and then bend my knees a little bit and gently open my feet to the side so that my knees can track right over my toes. Then, I am going to make sure my feet are planted in the ground. And, I am going to slowly track my toe up the side of my leg. I am going to point my toe. I am going to drop my hip. Then, I am going to reach my toe out to the side at a bit of an angle. It is not directly to the side. And then, I am going to reach down and bring my toe in. The whole time I want to make sure to drop my hip. I am just going to let my arms hang to the sides because it is modern dance. It is not ballet. And, if I need to, I can hold them out to the side too. Just gently, relaxed. I like to keep them to the side, to the side of the my body. So, I am going to point my toe. Drop my hip. Track my foot onto my knee. Reach out at an angle, out at an angle. Reach out with my toe, out and down and bring my foot in. So, I will do a few of those. If I want, I can do them kind of fast. Or, I can do them slow depending on if I want to work on some muscle tone or if I just want to warm things up a little bit.

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Modern Dance Warm-Ups: Side Developé

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