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Originally Posted by Brea
Hi all,
I generally teach the tucked-pelvis, bent-knee posture for dance (I know there's more to it than that, but for the sake of brevity). However I just read a thread on Bhuz saying that's incorrect.
What's a dancer to do? I want to teach the proper posture and not harm my students. Anyone have any thoughts?
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I missed that thread - it could be they were saying that extreme tuck is not a good idea. For instance, as much as I like a lot of what Shareen el Safy teaches her extreme pelvic tuck and hold a dime between your cheeks is not part of it!
"Neutral pelvis" is what I think most teachers mean when they say tucked. That is the position where the pelvis is neither tilted neither forward or back. In neutral the anterior hip bone is slightly lower than the posterior superior iliac spine - so if you want to go poking your students pelvis ....
The other problem with terminology is that many students will interpret "tuck your pelvis" as just that and pull their butts down making it all too tight to dance. In the last year or so I've changed it to "lift the front" and I have a hand gesture.
For many people, softening the knees is a requirement to a neutral pelvis. Actually bending the knees, though, help many people initially get some hip moves. The only reason not to bend the knees in perfromance is purely aethestics - bent knees and lycra look odd! You could get aways with it with the old style full skirts.