Video: Modern Dance Warm-Ups: Back Lunge Leg Swing

Stretching the leg and back muscles is important to do before doing any modern dance pose. Learn to warm-up for modern dancing with exercise in this free dance video from a professional dance instructor.

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 how to do some leg swings to the back with lunges. So first of all we are going to find first position the way we would in modern dance. So my feet are going to be together touching, my heels are touching, I bend my knees and I just open my toes gently out from my knees. I'm going to do this sideways so you can really see what I am doing so first of all I'm going to find a leg swing to the back. If I'm going to swing my leg to the back my upper body is going to move a little bit forward. I'm going to make sure to reach up with my chest while I do that, so come forward a little bit again. Try as much as possible to initiate with the legs and not with the chest. Now if I am going to do a lunge I'm going to reach back and lunge and reach forward and hit feet together. So my front leg is straight, my back leg is bent in the lunge. I'm going to use my arms too and I'm going to add a little lift in my sternum when I'm lunging to the back so my arms swing out to the side when I am in the arabesque, I lunge, I cross my arms and I raise my sternum. Then I reach forward again and my feet together and you'll know you really want to find balance here. So if you are not balancing well you will know that you are moving too much in your hips. You really want to drop your hips and keep your alignment. So I'm going to swing back, lunge back, come forward, together, back, lunge back, forward, together. So that's the way I would do some leg swings to the back with lunges in modern dance.

Modern Dance Warm-Ups: Back Lunge Leg Swing

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