I don't actually use them for instructional images, just for illustrations, but it's the same problem. The limitations are too obvious for anyone who dances or knows about dance.

I don't think it would be possible to use the existing figures for instructional poses as I always have to "fudge" the pose anyway to make it work. I did do one series of instructional dance images but I used toon figures for that - since it wasn't going to be possible to have correct poses anyway it was better to make it obvious they wouldn't be completely correct by using toons. It would be amazing to have a figure that can properly mimic a human range of body movement and I agree it opens up a host of new possibilities for Poser. I'd love to be able to create a proper dance series that didn't have to hide body parts under dynamic draperies to cover up all of the pose problems.

Those "Ellen" images are fantastic btw!