Video: Modern Dance Warm-Ups: Lunge Leg Swing

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With the heels touching, learn to warm-up for modern dancing with lunge leg swing exercises in this free dance video from a professional dance instructor.

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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 some leg swings with lunges to the front. First of all we're going to start in first position like you would in ballet but it is modern, we do have first position in modern also. So my feet are going to be starting together, my heels are touching and then I'm just going to open my toes up by starting to the side. I'll do that by bending my knees and opening them up and then I'm going to turn to the side a little bit so you can see this better and I'm just going to use a straight leg and swing my leg to the front. I'm going to do that by pushing through the floor and pointing my toe to the front, pushing through the floor and pointing to the front. You could do some of these for a while if you really wanted to warm your legs up you could do each side but when I'm ready I'm going to add a lunge to that. So I'm going to push through and I'm going to lunge to the front and then I'm going to push back on my standing leg and back. We are also going to add the upper body to that. We are going to push through, lunge, and let the upper body hang and let the arms swing. Then swing to the back and bring your feet together. I really want to drop my hips when I come back to my standing leg so I'm going to swing out, lunge, swing back, down and I can swing my arms out to the side when my leg goes out, lunge, swing them to the front, lean back, and back to first position. If you did it a little faster, add a little more momentum to really work on your balance. So that's the way I would do some leg swings with lunges to the front in modern dance.

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Modern Dance Warm-Ups: Lunge Leg Swing

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