Workshop
Turnout from the Ground Up
with Alicia Head
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About This Workshop
Alicia Head has identified key concepts related to training more awareness, proprioception, and deep connection to the structures that facilitate turnout in the dancer. She uses helpful visuals to demonstrate the anatomy, bone rhythms, and sensations in the body that bring a more integrated approach to training.
Learn how to spot common postural misalignments, how to address them, and how they are all related to poor control of turnout. This whole-body approach; breath, bones, fascia, and muscles can be harnessed to change the way instructors think about, cue and instruct this important concept in the dance community.
Concepts & Techniques
- Common faulty alignments in dancers
- How the breath can create more ease and less rigidity in the dancer
- How bone rhythms of the lower leg in particular can impede or enhance access to turnout
- Wrapping techniques to give the dancer proprioceptive feedback that encourages appropriate muscular/fascial activation.
Objectives
- Obtain tools to correct faulty alignment that is more integrated & less compartmentalized.
- Create awareness of the musculature and bone rhythms necessary to support turnout.
Props & Equipment
- Reformer
- 16-foot-long piece of ponte de roma fabric
Workshop Level
- Advanced
- Beginner
- Intermediate
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| Workshop | Free Member | Forever Member |
|---|---|---|
| Turnout from the Ground Up | $59 USD Register Now | $39 USD Get Access |
About Alicia Head
Alicia Head began her Pilates journey in San Francisco with Elizabeth Larkam and Nora St. John at the Pilates studio contained within St. Francis Memorial Hospital’s Sports Medicine division. Alicia was fascinated by t…
Feedback on Turnout from the Ground Up
course was phenomenal and Alicia was a consummate pro!Cynthia B
Featured Student Feedback
course was phenomenal and Alicia was a consummate pro!
A good reminder of energy within and how muscles can be directed by it.
Thank you Alicia - reflect on my feelings. I practice for that.
This was a very helpful explanation of, and tools with which to teach and experience, where turnout actually comes from. Also why it is supportive for the ballet dancer. I was very generally aware of the bony rhythms but had not focused on literally rotating the lower leg in straightening. This built upon a workshop in Franklin Method that focused on the foot. This being familiar territory already it's helpful to have more validation and cues. Thank you. Very well spoken and presented!