Video: Modern Dance Warm-Ups: Side Leg Extension

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Strengthen leg muscles with side leg extensions. Learn to warm-up for modern dancing with leg extension exercises in this free dance video from a professional dance instructor.

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Hi my name is Chell Garcia-Trias from Austin, Texas. I'm going to show you how to do some leg extensions to the side while laying on the floor the way that I would do them in modern dance so that I could learn to move within my abilities as far as turn out goes and also to strengthen my legs. So first I'm going to rest on the side of my body and I'm going to put my elbow down and I'm going to bring my heels together. You could also lay all the way down and rest your head on your arm and use the upper hand for some stability. And then I'm going to turn my legs out, just to where it is comfortable and I'm just going to come up to the side. Now I'm not coming directly to the side, I'm actually tracking my turn out. So you'll see that when you are in this position on the floor it is hard to force your turn out. So you are really working within your own ability and I'm just going to point and reach through my toe up to an angle and you can do several of these as many as you want. If you want you can come to passe and lift and down and I'm tracking my foot. I'm reaching my toe towards my knee and then I'm just straightening it and coming down and I can also do it the opposite way, reach to passe and down to an envelope, reach out, in to passe and down. So it's a great strengthening exercise and a great way to find where your turn out is the way that I would do it in modern dance.

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Modern Dance Warm-Ups: Side Leg Extension

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