Lying on s mat with her knees up, Cohen releases her pelvic half and her pelvis by turning the knees inwards and outwards. She allows both knees to fall to the side. She states that the “coccyx helps to move the pelvis.” The spine is the one directing the legs instead of the other way round. One can feel the tail of one’s coccyx moving by turning the heel at the same time. The coccyx is the one leading the movement of the heel. As one folds in the leg to the hip joint, one leg at a time, the pelvic cap moves as one lifts the knee towards the chest in a lying down position. The sacrum is at the other end of the body, extending downwards. The sacrum (tail) helps to initiate the coccyx in the extending of the legs. One can feel that one side of the leg is longer and more extended than the other.
Dance technique
Leg brushes and leg extensions on the floor: the sacrum and the coccyx instead of using the knee and the leg muscles to perform the movement can initiate this movement. By extending the sacrum and coccyx downwards away from the body, performing a battement with the leg is lighter, more extended in length.
Reference:
Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen (2013) Initiating Movement from the Coccyx with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen. Available at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-UYNT-5eig [Accessed 27 April 2015].
Dance technique
Leg brushes and leg extensions on the floor: the sacrum and the coccyx instead of using the knee and the leg muscles to perform the movement can initiate this movement. By extending the sacrum and coccyx downwards away from the body, performing a battement with the leg is lighter, more extended in length.
Reference:
Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen (2013) Initiating Movement from the Coccyx with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen. Available at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-UYNT-5eig [Accessed 27 April 2015].