Dance · Upper legs

Demi-plié

Target Quadriceps  ·  Equipment Body weight  ·  Level Beginner  ·  Reps 4

Demi-plié is a beginner-level dance movement targeting the quadriceps, written in Posecode, a small open-source language that LLMs like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini can write to describe human movement as text. Every joint angle below is hard-clamped to a safe range of motion.

How to do it

1. Plié2s · ease-in-out Turn out from the hips and bend the knees over the toes: heels down
2. Straighten2s · ease-out Press the floor away and rise to a tall first position

The .posecode source

This is the exact text an LLM writes to produce the animation above: phases and joint angles, not 3D transforms.

posecode exercise "Demi-plié"
  rig humanoid
  pose start = standing

  step "Plié" 2s ease-in-out:
    hips: flex 20
    hips: rotate-out 30
    knees: flex 55
    ankles: dorsiflex 12
    shoulders: abduct 70
    elbows: flex 15
    spine: extend 4
    ground-lock: feet
    cue "Turn out from the hips and bend the knees over the toes: heels down"

  step "Straighten" 2s ease-out:
    hips: flex 0
    hips: rotate-out 0
    knees: flex 0
    ankles: dorsiflex 0
    shoulders: abduct 0
    elbows: flex 0
    spine: flex 0
    ground-lock: feet
    cue "Press the floor away and rise to a tall first position"

  repeat 4

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