Modern Dance Leg & Feet Alignment

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Hi, my name is Chell Garcia-Trias, and I'm a modern dance instructor in Austin, Texas. I'm going to help you find proper alignment with your legs and feet, the way that we do in modern dance. The way I would do this is I would bend my knees, and I would stick my bottom out a little bit so that I can feel, you're going to feel where your sits bones are. They're at the top of your legs and they're two knobby little bones. If you don't feel like you can find them just bend further, you will find them, I promise you, you can find them. So once I found those, I'm going to try and put my heals right below them. This is how we're going to find a great way to stand in modern dance. In modern dance we want our feet only about an inch or two apart, we want our heals directly below our sits bones. So that's too far, and that's not far enough, so if I find my sits bones and I bounce a little bit to relax, I can feel the connection between my heals and my sits bones. I'm going to imagine that there's a little rubber band connecting them and it's bouncing me up and down just gently, and you'll find that if you really find that connection, you're going to feel your thighs working a little bit, you're going to be leaning forward a little bit, not back. If I'm leaning back, my sits bones are too far back, they're not right above my heals. So once I've found that, I'm just going to stand up tall and I'm going to feel that connection and I'm going to keep that connection with everything I do in modern dance. And that's a great way to find a good position for your legs in modern dance.

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