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Description

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.

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.


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.

Props & Equipment Used

  • Reformer
  • 16-foot-long piece of ponte de roma fabric

Workshop Level

  • Advanced
  • Beginner
  • Intermediate


Duration & Access

This workshop is approximately 2.3 hours long and you have 30 days of access.
(No expiration for Forever Access Members)
 
 
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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... Find Out More Other Workshops by Alicia Head

Feedback on Turnout from the Ground Up by Alicia Head

" course was phenomenal and Alicia was a consummate pro! "

Cynthia B

" A good reminder of energy within and how muscles can be directed by it. "

Kalli B

" 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! "

Tamar T

   

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