Dance · Upper legs

Tendu

Target Hip flexors  ·  Equipment Body weight  ·  Level Intermediate  ·  Reps 4

Tendu is an intermediate-level dance movement targeting the hip flexors, 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. Brush and point1.8s · settle Brush the right foot forward to a fully pointed tendu, leg turned out
2. Close through the floor1.8s · settle Draw the foot back to first position, heel down

The .posecode source

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

posecode exercise "Tendu"
  rig humanoid
  pose start = standing

  step "Brush and point" 1.8s settle:
    hip_right: flex 22
    hip_right: rotate-out 30
    knee_right: extend 0
    ankle_right: plantarflex 45
    shoulders: abduct 70
    elbows: flex 14
    pin: foot_left floor
    cue "Brush the right foot forward to a fully pointed tendu, leg turned out"

  step "Close through the floor" 1.8s settle:
    hip_right: flex 0
    hip_right: rotate-out 0
    ankle_right: plantarflex 0
    shoulders: abduct 0
    elbows: flex 0
    ground-lock: feet
    cue "Draw the foot back to first position, heel down"

  repeat 4

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