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 developes to the back, the way that I would do them in modern dance. So even though it's modern dance, we're still going to do them in first position, we do use first position in modern dance also. I'm going to find first position by bringing my feet together and then just bending my knees a little bit and gently opening my toes up to the side. I don't want to force my turn out, I just want to be able to stand balanced on my feet. And now, what I'm going to do is I'm going to drop my hip while I bring my toe up to track my leg all the way up to my knee. When I get to my knee, I'm going to start reaching back with my toe and straightening out my leg. The whole time I'm going to be turning my knee out to the side and I'm going to be using my muscles in the back to hold my leg up. So I'll do it sideways so you can see a little better. I track my toe up to my knee and then I reach back and I'm opening my knee out and I'm dropping my hip and I'm reaching back, back, back with my toe. And I can lean forward a little bit with my upper body. And then I'm going to bring my toe back and into first position. And I'm just going to let my arms hang the whole time that I do that. So I do the other foot. I'm going to track my toe up to my knee, I'm going to drop my hip, push through my standing leg and reach back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, my knee is opening up, my hip is dropping, I'm reaching out with my toe, in and forward to first position. So that's the way that I would do developes to the back in modern dance.
