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Summary: Laying on the back, bring knees to chest to stretch the hips before modern dancing. Learn to do modern dance hip stretches with tips from a professional dance teacher in this free modern dance video lesson.

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Chell Garcia-Trias 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... read more

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Modern Dance Hip Stretches

Hi, my name is Chell Garcia-Trias and I'm going to show you a way in modern dance that we open up our hips. It's very simple way, we're just going to lay flat on our back, we're going to make sure that our spine is pushing towards the ground while we're laying on our back. We're going to bring our knees towards our chest and we're going to jut gently manipulate our knees so that we're opening up our hips. I'll show you what I mean. I'm going to lay back down to where my whole spine is laying on the ground. I can feel every part of my back pushing on the ground. And then I'm going to bring my knees towards my chest and I'm just going to gently rock one knee and then the other, one knee and then the other, just letting them open up. And then I'll start doing little circles with them. This is a way not only to open up your hips but to open up your lower back. If you're having any lower back pain, this is a nice way to just release any tension in your lower back. I'm going to go side to side, little half circles, I'll do circles with one leg and then the other. I'll change the directions of the circles. And that's all I'm going to do. It's really important when I'm doing this that I actually move really slowly. I'm doing it kind of quickly for the sake of time, but really I can just take deep breaths and just really gently move my legs around and feel my hips just opening up and relaxing. And like I said, you'll also feel your lower back, just relaxing this positions. So that's a nice way in Modern Dance to just gently open up your hips and your lower back.

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