I tried out the Saute Test with my students and made sure to take a video. I realized right before I made this post that I could slow the video down to have a better look at what was going on. I plan to use this as a tool to help students see what’s happening. I do wish I had moved while I was videoing to get a side view. We tried the test at the barre just to see how it would go the first time. In general, maintaining deep rotator and core engagement could be better. This is something that this group, as well as the other students I have during the year, could stand to work on. The three on the right, but especially the one in the skirt, have anterior pelvic tilts. Two of them understand the concept of a neutral pelvis and I’ve seen them make the correction on their own, but the one in the skirt has been really struggling. I did notice a couple of the dancers also sickling or winging a bit as they jump, but it didn’t really look like they landed sickled or winged, but please correct me if I’m wrong. A bit of a follow up question to Molly’s about turnout cues, is there a way to tell if dancers are using the correct muscles for turnout? I know we’ve discussed using the toes as a tool to see if it’s not coming from the hips, but what about if they’re turning out from the hips, but not the right hip muscles? I have an anterior pelvic tilt. When I take class, I’m able to pay attention to my body and keep myself in better alignment. However, when I teach, I can’t pay as much attention to my own alignment when demonstrating, so I revert to bad habits. I laughed a bit to myself when we got to the part in the slideshow last week that has the picture that shows how the kinetic chain is disrupted by an anterior pelvic tilt because all of that is what I’m dealing with right now. In my students, I mostly see some level of anterior tilt as well. I have a couple that it’s more substantial, like the dancer in the skirt mentioned above. Thinking about this is now making me wonder, is anterior pelvic tilt more common in dancers than posterior tilt? At what point should dancers with either tilt see a physical therapist?