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Pirouette

Target Full body  ·  Equipment Body weight  ·  Level Intermediate  ·  Reps 3

Pirouette 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. Prep - plié1.2s · flow Plié to load the turn, arms rounded low in first
2. Spot & spin1.4s · flow Push up to relevé, pull the arms in, and spin a full turn
3. Land through plié0.9s · settle Finish the turn and absorb the landing through a soft plié
4. Recover1.1s · settle Lengthen to standing and let the arms float back to the sides

The .posecode source

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

posecode exercise "Pirouette"
  rig humanoid
  pose start = standing

  step "Prep - plié" 1.2s flow:
    hips: rotate-out 25
    knees: flex 45
    ankles: dorsiflex 12
    shoulders: flex 40
    elbows: flex 35
    ground-lock: foot_left
    reach: foot_right floor
    cue "Plié to load the turn, arms rounded low in first"

  step "Spot & spin" 1.4s flow:
    knee_left: flex 0
    ankle_left: plantarflex 35
    hip_right: flex 55
    hip_right: rotate-out 45
    knee_right: flex 110
    ankle_right: plantarflex 35
    shoulders: flex 95
    elbows: flex 40
    turn: 360
    pin: foot_left floor
    cue "Push up to relevé, pull the arms in, and spin a full turn"

  step "Land through plié" 0.9s settle:
    hip_right: flex 0
    hip_right: rotate-out 0
    knee_right: flex 28
    ankle_right: dorsiflex 8
    knee_left: flex 28
    ankle_left: dorsiflex 8
    shoulders: abduct 55
    shoulders: flex 0
    elbows: flex 18
    ground-lock: feet
    cue "Finish the turn and absorb the landing through a soft plié"

  step "Recover" 1.1s settle:
    hips: flex 0
    hips: rotate-out 0
    knees: flex 0
    ankles: dorsiflex 0
    shoulders: abduct 0
    elbows: flex 0
    ground-lock: feet
    cue "Lengthen to standing and let the arms float back to the sides"

  repeat 3

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