Quote - Well, here is the reference photo I used. This girl is standing still, but Roxie is supposed o be in the middle of a turn.

In your reference pose, it appears to me that the dancers leg is rotated with the ankle (not just the ankle), and is at approximately 70-75 (maybe 80) degrees rotation from the body. The right foot is already "unweighted" with the balance/weight already fully transfered to the left foot, and I surmise that the body will now start rotating to the left as she brings her right foot forward. So it appears that the foot is at the maximum rotation from the body in the captured pose.

I'd say try Roxie's pose yourself, but I wouldn't want you to end up on cructhes for the next two months :blink:

Seriously though, position your foot/ankle the same, without turning your knee, lift the back/heel of your foot and keep the ball of your foot on the floor/ground, now carefully put light forwad motion preasure on your right leg/foot (forward relative to your body, not your right foot). You should immediately feel discomfort in and around your ankle. Now imagine what would happen if you were to do the same thing with the full force of your body moving forward.

My wife laughs at me a lot when I'm trying to make a pose more realistic, because this is exaclty what I do. I immitate the pose I'm having problems with. I tried exactly what I said above, to make sure I wasn't just full of the brown stuff. Without rotating my thigh/knee, my ankle wouldn't quite go there (probably would have when I was 30 yrs. younger, but it wouldn't have been comfortable). Allowing my entire leg to rotate, I could easily put my foot at 90 degrees to my body, but putting forward preasure on it while keeping only the ball of my foot firmly on the floor, made my ankle feel extremely uncomfortable.

Bottom line though, it's your work, and you have every right to pose Roxie how ever you feel is right and proper. I just thought I'd take the opportunity to share how I deal with difficult poses, as even slightly un-natural poses put you on the expressway to uncanny valley.

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