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Chassé

Target Full body  ·  Equipment Body weight  ·  Level Intermediate  ·  Reps 4

Chassé is an intermediate-level dance movement targeting the full body, written in Posecode, a small open-source language that capable language models can use to describe human movement as text. Authored joint targets and reach-IK solves are constrained to Posecode's configured per-axis bounds. Those bounds constrain the visualization, but they do not certify that a complete movement is safe or clinically correct. This page documents a code example; it is not exercise instruction.

Movement phases

Phase cues are display-only coaching text. The executable joint and contact directives in the source below determine the animation.

1. Right foot reaches0.65s · flow Reach the right foot sideways and push away from the left leg
2. Left foot chases0.5s · flow Let the left foot chase under the body without breaking the sideways flow
3. Right foot reaches again0.65s · flow Reach right once more and finish the outward chassé
4. Left foot reaches back0.65s · flow Reverse cleanly and reach the left foot back across the floor
5. Right foot chases0.5s · flow Let the right foot chase under the body on the return
6. Left foot closes home0.7s · settle Close home over both feet and let the momentum resolve

The .posecode source

This is the exact text used by the linked playground animation: phases and joint angles, not 3D transforms.

posecode exercise "Chassé"
  rig humanoid
  pose start = standing

  step "Right foot reaches" 0.65s flow:
    hip_right: abduct 20
    knee_right: flex 20
    ankle_right: plantarflex 30
    ankle_left: plantarflex 20
    shoulders: abduct 60
    elbows: flex 18
    travel: 0.2 0
    pin: foot_left floor
    reach: foot_right floor
    cue "Reach the right foot sideways and push away from the left leg"

  step "Left foot chases" 0.5s flow:
    hip_right: abduct 0
    knee_right: flex 0
    ankle_right: plantarflex 0
    hip_left: abduct 18
    knee_left: flex 22
    ankle_left: plantarflex 30
    travel: 0.2 0
    pin: foot_right floor
    cue "Let the left foot chase under the body without breaking the sideways flow"

  step "Right foot reaches again" 0.65s flow:
    hip_left: abduct 0
    knee_left: flex 0
    ankle_left: plantarflex 18
    hip_right: abduct 20
    knee_right: flex 20
    ankle_right: plantarflex 30
    travel: 0.4 0
    pin: foot_left floor
    reach: foot_right floor
    cue "Reach right once more and finish the outward chassé"

  step "Left foot reaches back" 0.65s flow:
    hip_right: abduct 0
    knee_right: flex 0
    ankle_right: plantarflex 20
    hip_left: abduct 20
    knee_left: flex 20
    ankle_left: plantarflex 30
    travel: 0.2 0
    pin: foot_right floor
    reach: foot_left floor
    cue "Reverse cleanly and reach the left foot back across the floor"

  step "Right foot chases" 0.5s flow:
    hip_left: abduct 0
    knee_left: flex 0
    ankle_left: plantarflex 0
    hip_right: abduct 18
    knee_right: flex 22
    ankle_right: plantarflex 30
    travel: 0.2 0
    pin: foot_left floor
    cue "Let the right foot chase under the body on the return"

  step "Left foot closes home" 0.7s settle:
    hip_right: abduct 0
    knee_right: flex 0
    ankles: plantarflex 0
    shoulders: abduct 0
    elbows: flex 0
    travel: 0 0
    ground-lock: feet
    cue "Close home over both feet and let the momentum resolve"

  repeat 4

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