Video: Modern Dance Warm-Ups: Back Leg Extension

Laying on the stomach with heels touching, learn to warm-up for modern dancing with back leg extension exercises 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 extensions to the back on the floor, the way that I would do it so that you really learn to work within your own flexibility as far as turn out goes and as far as extensions goes. So first I'm going to lay on my stomach and I'm going to put my feet behind me and I'm going to have my heels touching and my toes turned out just a little bit. So in this position it's hard to force your turn out, you'll really will not going to be able to turn out as much as it's naturally possible for you. And I'm just going to reach out with my toe and up to the back and then down again. And I'm going to try to keep my hips on the floor as much as possible. This is a real strengthening exercise for my hamstrings and it will open up my hips also. See, you do each foot. If you want you can come up to passe and reach back and down or you can develope, reach back, come to passe and down. So you'll see that you're not really going to want to go back as far as you think you do like when you're standing up. And so it's a really great way for you to learn where your actual mobility is within first position and working in our best. So that's the way that I would do some leg extensions to the back in Modern Dance.

Modern Dance Warm-Ups: Back Leg Extension

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