Modern Dance Barrel Jump

Series Summary

Dancing is an old art that expresses emotions, cultures, and ideas through body movements. The basic foundation for classical dance is ballet, though there are hundreds of variations that incorporate unique movements in their choreography. Modern dance, created in the early 20th century, breaks from tradition by modifying classical ballet moves into new and interesting forms. Modern dance has no rules or set positions, so the modern dancer is free to contort his or her body in any way that expresses a desired idea. Leaps into the air add drama and movement to a modern dance routine. In this free modern dance video series, a professional dancer demonstrates several different kinds of modern jumps. Learn the barrel jump, switch leaps, asymmetrical jumps and modified ballet leaps. Liven up a boring choreography with these great modern dance jumps.

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 a barrel turn which is actually a jump, the way that I learned how to do it. Plant your front foot and you're going to twist while your jumping; your legs you're going to bring one and bend it, bring one forward and bend it; and then the other forward and bend it while you're turning around yourself, you want to lean back a little bit while you're doing it too. So the way it's going to look is like this; so I really want to throw my upper body up and around as much as possible, and I'm really twisting my legs as much as possible. So I'll show you one more time; I'm going to step, I'm going to; I'll show you in slow motion, I'm going to step; I'm going to jump and turn this way, and then jump to my other foot. So it's a jump; pasha like that so with a little bit of motion it's going to go like this, so that's how I would do a barrel turn jump the way that I learned how to do it in modern dance."