Subscribe to Dance Today Youtube Channel. I would like to clarify a little bit how you energize
a turn do you find it difficult to turn or to accelerate making it kind of beautiful in balance
of course and where do you get the energy from for that turn yes so let's stand everywhere go a
little bit apart that all of you have a little bit of space come a little bit forward and backwards
i know you like to stand next to each other holding holding hands but i would like you also
to use a little bit your frame so please make sure that you have enough space around yourself
when you put your arms out because i would like to use not only the body i want you also
to use your frame because that is also something important within the turn that helps you actually
to balance to turn in a better way so if you all stand please on the right foot and have a feel of
drop your weight onto this foot so there you feel a very nice grounded action do you feel that very
good do you are you comfortable very good so now of course the first thing is that we understand
the difference between our gravity that we need to feed something in the standing leg in order to get
balance that amount of balance can be in different ways it can be a little bit more
grounded the more you allow the weight to rest on your bone the more grounded you get
and that we call actually our stable or static balance now that you are on top of the middle of
the foot and you are in a very comfortable static position yes now as soon as you start moving this
part forward and backwards and i would like it now just feel that you move your right hip joint
forward and backwards you feel that you're on the foot you feel like you travel your weight onto the
ball of the foot back to the middle maybe to the heel and back forward and rig can you feel that
as soon as we do that we change the body weight forward and backwards we are starting to get a
dynamic balance because now we start driving our body weight forward backwards and we feel
some dynamic do you feel that can you feel that yes now you can also lighten that a little bit
in like you take your center a little bit lighter that you feel aha you're pulling a little bit more
into the center and put it more on the ball of the foot yes and that is where we see the amount of uh
weight we're going down in for a turn we need to be a little bit lighter you can try that one time
just drop down the weight and really ground yourself really feel connected and now just
turn baby
just make a spin turn and turn and turn and turn and again and then okay do you feel but stay
down so really feel grounded make this feeling of that you you're brushing your heel on the
floor and really make it like the ice skaters a picture on the floor yeah feel that you really
put your weight down how do you feel good or is it difficult it's not the best is it because you
are actually too much grounded for a nicer lighter turn yes you feel too much so if you take a little
bit energy into the center you get a little bit lighter and you remain on the ball of the foot
then you start the upper body to turn but don't turn yet the lower butt to start this and
follow through in the lower part start in the beginning and follow through and start in the top
and follow through very good so you're actually turning more on the ball of the foot can you
feel that instead of on the whole foot and therefore your body weight is slightly lighter
yes so is it then only that we choose our gravity set gravity center to be a little bit lower
or a little bit lighter or does the rest of the body have to work as well what do you think what
is the rest of the body this is the middle part and then our leg and then we have a top part
the the torso everything has to help to turn if you want to turn you turn not only like what we
call a hip twist as the word says we think we're turning and twisting the hip yeah we do this
twist the hip twist hip twist it do this one time do this one right and go really for a twist the
name twist and twist and twist and twist and twist difficult you see it feels like the wrong momentum
so even though we call it a hip twist and we do twist the hip but it's not enough just to
twisting the hip because you need to actually take the leg the foot and the hip try that go
a little bit lighter and now still start from the body again from the top and that is what actually
the upper body does it starts to turn and then you hip twist about take the leg and the foot as well
hop hop ah is that easier yeah that you feel actually that your gravity center
is on top of that leg and you turn the whole leg yes so we not only think about
a hip twist and turn the hip joint and twisting the hip like we do in normal
twist action yes so we actually need to turn the foot the leg and the center
yes very good so now let's be a little bit more specific about this what the upper body does
really yes so where in the body you feel you can create in the upper body the turn if you do this
one more time stand on the right foot and feel where you can turn in the upper body where is
the flexibility in the upper body to turn what do you think rips rips they are very tasty rips
below the ribs you feel it down here more in the back or more in the front
now what do you feel
towards the back yes so what's in the back
is our spine very good and that is actually the part that is flexible and some parts are
a little bit more flexible and some a little bit less not the top on our neck the neck vertebras
are very flexible this can be easily turned then we go a little bit lower already they get less
flexible they can't still work but less why can they do less what do you think
or maybe i explain you don't ask so much i can explain to you so we have these
more we call that the torso part of the spine yes and that connects of course to our ribcage
yes this ribcage is connected with muscles to our these end parts of the spine yes and then
this one is connected in the front you have a lot of cartilage that keeps that torso or that
drip cage together so because it is all connected therefore even though the cartilage is slightly
flexible but not as much the bone certainly not is not flexible so what you really can only
turn is your vertebras yes but because they are connected to a torso you they are not as flexible
now if you go a little bit lower a little bit lower just under your shoulder blades
there is a part on the ribcage where we have two floating ribs there do you know that yeah there is
you have to see it once this the top one is much more connected and the lower part is actually
two ones that are not connected this is the area where you where the spine is the most flexible
this is exactly the area this is exactly underneath your shoulder blades yeah and this is
why this area look if you turn it and you really think under your shoulder blades and you turn not
the shoulders and the arms you really try to twist in this vertebras under your shoulder blade really
try that ah very good can you feel that and you really put it in a vertical because the the column
or the spine is vertical and you really put it here that is where the flexibility comes from
then the spine lower the lombard one is not so flexible because that's actually where the
lumbar is is connecting to our pelvis bone that's why that is also stuck again so you of course you
can twist but you don't do that from the spine you do that because your hip joints are moving
forward and backward you can try that try that can you feel that your hip joints move forward
and backwards and of course upper spine helps a little bit to turn the lumbar but this is actually
more or less a stiff stiff spine yes there is not a lot of movement happening yes also if you do
pelvis action forward and backward do you do it in the down part or is it a little bit more from the
top supporting to help you to do a pelvis action yeah it's more than the upper part that helps you
to actually go into this movement yeah can you feel that this lower lower part in the coccyx the
last bit of it is also a a fixed boom yes that is just hanging underneath so really this is on
the middle part here on the lower underneath the shoulder that is where we actually have the most
flexibility so i want you to feel really the difference because it makes a big difference