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Day 5

This class was all about making nice with the floor. The floor is our friend. And what better way to feel this than to get close to the floor and do some floorwork. We did our basic roll across the floor and had our partner follow us and push our bodies down. This allowed us to drop our weight and pelvis to the floor. Sometimes floorwork is counterintuitive for some dancers because we train so much in lifting up off the floor, and strive to jump high. But floorwork requires the exact opposite. We want to melt our bodies into the floor and continuously drop the pelvis. We improvised a little bit on getting up from the floor and moving down to the floor. Remember to roll down on the front of the foot and when getting up, take a big step out and connect the sitz bones to the heels. With floorwork, you also want to activate the meaty part in the legs and in the arms. Meaning when you are rolling on the floor, feel the spirals in the limbs that allow you to rest on the shoulders, forearms, shins and butt, so as to avoid the hard surfaces of the bones. Also, thinking about lateral and horizontal movement instead of vertical, so that we are not using only our quadriceps to move up and down from the floor. We added a little bit to the combination – just two rolls on the floor. We will review these and do a few more turning exercises in the next session. See you then!