Wrist and Hand Movement Breakdowns 1 of 7: Hand Position
Wrist and Hand Movement Breakdowns
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6m 55s
Learn and practice, step-by-step, a detailed breakdown of the placement for soft, relaxed hands. This segment also touches on idiomatic Egyptian hand placement, and concludes with specific instructions on avoiding hand placement that may inadvertently be construed as rude gesturing.
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Wrist and Hand Movement Breakdowns 2 ...
In this segment, we examine a foundation movement where the wrist stays in one spot, and the hand sweeps around from that base. Although this movement, on its own, is infrequently used, it is important as a building block that will help you to pick up subsequent hand vocabulary much more quickly....
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Wrist and Hand Movement Breakdowns 3 ...
In a sweeping wrist articulation, a dancer layers together either flexion or extension of the wrist with movement of the wrist through space. We need the wrist sweep to build the more sophisticated circles and hand undulations that we’ll breakdown later in this series, and we also need it for flu...
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Wrist and Hand Movement Breakdowns 4 ...
For this soft and sophisticated hand circle, we layer together the isolated outside hand circle taught in section 3 with the sweeping wrist articulation taught in section 4.
