Modern Dance Front Leg Extensions

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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 show you how to do a balanced leg extension to the front in modern dance. So first of all, I am going to make sure that my feet are planted in the ground. And I am going to take some deeps breaths so that I'm balanced right away. Now if you need to, while you're doing this, you can hold onto a chair or the wall with one hand while holding onto your foot with the other. But if you have some good balance, you're just going to reach down, and grab your foot, grab around both sides with your hands, and my standing leg is straight and my other leg is bent, and I'm slowly going to bring my foot in front, and I'm going to reach forward with my heel. This whole time I'm going to drop my hip, and I'm going to drop my shoulders. I'm going to straighten as much as I can. If I need to, I can have bent knees. I can have both my knees bent if I need to, that's okay. Just where you're comfortable is where you want to stretch. And I'm just going to hang here for as long as I want. When I'm ready I'll bend my knees, I'll bring my foot down to my knee, and I'll stand both of my feet down together. It's really important that that whole time I'm dropping this hip, I'm dropping the hip of the leg that's up in the air, so that I'm not hyped up like this. It's not going to be good for my back or my hip. So I really want to drop, I want to think down with my hip, up with my foot, out. So, you can do that to wherever is comfortable for you. Hold onto a wall if you need to practice it a little bit, but that is a great balanced leg extension to the front in modern dance.

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