Dance · Upper legs

Tendu

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

Tendu is a intermediate-level dance movement targeting the hip flexors, 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. Point front1.6s · ease-in-out Brush the right foot forward to a fully pointed tendu, leg turned out
2. Close1.6s · ease-in-out Draw the foot back to first position, heel down

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 "Tendu"
  rig humanoid
  pose start = standing

  step "Point front" 1.6s ease-in-out:
    hip_right: flex 22
    hip_right: rotate-out 30
    knee_right: extend 0
    ankle_right: plantarflex 45
    shoulders: abduct 70
    elbows: flex 14
    cue "Brush the right foot forward to a fully pointed tendu, leg turned out"

  step "Close" 1.6s ease-in-out:
    hip_right: flex 0
    hip_right: rotate-out 0
    ankle_right: plantarflex 0
    shoulders: abduct 0
    elbows: flex 0
    cue "Draw the foot back to first position, heel down"

  repeat 4

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