Teachers using their hip joints
‘Had a fabulous time dancing at the weekend with my new hips!’ so writes Susie one of my regular students who loves a quick chaissez and bee-bop over the dance floor. She’d not had hip replacements, but re-mapped where her hip joint was.
They are useful things, hip joints, particularly to realise the joint is not at the top of the hip bone but to the side of the groin, and it is from there the leg swings and moves. If you put your hand there and sit and stand a few times or just walk about you will feel the action of the hip joint. Many people believe the leg goes up as far as the top of the pelvis, and start to creat a false joint at the waist, bending from there as they sit down, bend down etc.
But from now on, if you’ve read this, you will never want to do that again! You will see in this photo a number of AT teachers working in ‘monkey’ which has hip-joint knowledge as a pre-requisite. (Thanks to Jann Gerry Aino and Rags who were helping out at ArtsEd that day with my MA students.