Summary: A flying jump in modern dance requires a strong core to balance in the air. See a flying jump with tips from a professional dancer in this free modern dance video.
Chell Garcia-Trias has been dancing for 30 years. As a community scholar at Columbia College Dance School, she earned a B.A. in dance and acting. Garcia-Trias was artistic director for...read more
"Hi my name is Chell Garcia-Trias and I'm a modern dance instructor in Austin, Texas. I'm going to show you what I'd like to call a flying jump in modern dance. What I'm going to do is I'm going to jump from my left foot to my right, left foot to right but when I do it I'm going to throw my arms out in front of me and I'm going to throw my legs behind me so I am trying to hover a little bit above the ground. So I'm going to jump from left to right and hover and I have to really use my stomach muscles and kind of look down at the ground so that I get more of that hovering feeling. If you get a little bit of a run with it that will probably help too. I'm going to twist and hover. I'm lunging on my left foot and I'm twisting you see how I'm already twisting around and that twist is what gives me the momentum to hover so I twist, hover, and come down so that's the way that I would do what I call a flying jump in modern dance."
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