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Grapevine

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

Grapevine is a beginner-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. Left step side0.65s · flow Step the left foot to the side and begin travelling
2. Right crosses behind0.65s · flow Cross the right foot behind without stopping the sideways momentum
3. Left step side again0.65s · flow Step left again and keep the shoulders quiet
4. Right touch0.55s · flow Touch the right foot in lightly before reversing
5. Right step side0.65s · flow Step the right foot to the side to travel back
6. Left crosses behind0.65s · flow Cross the left foot behind and continue through the beat
7. Right step side again0.65s · flow Step right and arrive back near the starting place
8. Close home0.65s · settle Close the left foot under the body and settle the phrase

The .posecode source

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

posecode exercise "Grapevine"
  rig humanoid
  pose start = standing

  step "Left step side" 0.65s flow:
    hip_left: abduct 16
    shoulders: abduct 40
    travel: 0.3 0
    pin: foot_right floor
    reach: foot_left floor
    cue "Step the left foot to the side and begin travelling"

  step "Right crosses behind" 0.65s flow:
    hip_left: abduct 0
    hip_right: rotate-in 20
    knee_right: flex 25
    ankle_right: plantarflex 25
    travel: 0.6 0
    pin: foot_left floor
    reach: foot_right floor
    cue "Cross the right foot behind without stopping the sideways momentum"

  step "Left step side again" 0.65s flow:
    hip_right: rotate-in 0
    knee_right: flex 0
    ankle_right: plantarflex 0
    hip_left: abduct 16
    travel: 0.9 0
    pin: foot_right floor
    reach: foot_left floor
    cue "Step left again and keep the shoulders quiet"

  step "Right touch" 0.55s flow:
    hip_left: abduct 0
    knee_right: flex 16
    ankle_right: plantarflex 20
    travel: 1 0
    ground-lock: foot_left
    reach: foot_right floor
    cue "Touch the right foot in lightly before reversing"

  step "Right step side" 0.65s flow:
    knee_right: flex 0
    ankle_right: plantarflex 0
    hip_right: abduct 16
    travel: 0.7 0
    pin: foot_left floor
    reach: foot_right floor
    cue "Step the right foot to the side to travel back"

  step "Left crosses behind" 0.65s flow:
    hip_right: abduct 0
    hip_left: rotate-in 20
    knee_left: flex 25
    ankle_left: plantarflex 25
    travel: 0.4 0
    pin: foot_right floor
    reach: foot_left floor
    cue "Cross the left foot behind and continue through the beat"

  step "Right step side again" 0.65s flow:
    hip_left: rotate-in 0
    knee_left: flex 0
    ankle_left: plantarflex 0
    hip_right: abduct 16
    travel: 0.1 0
    pin: foot_left floor
    reach: foot_right floor
    cue "Step right and arrive back near the starting place"

  step "Close home" 0.65s settle:
    hip_right: abduct 0
    shoulders: abduct 0
    travel: 0 0
    reach: foot_left floor
    reach: foot_right floor
    cue "Close the left foot under the body and settle the phrase"

  repeat 3

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