Elements and Performance Criteria
- Plan, rehearse and compose dance pieces
- Clarify intention of dance pieces with relevant personnel
- Use a range of sources to generate ideas and determine stimuli
- Select ideas and translate intention into choreographic plans
- Through experimentation and improvisation identify dance forms and structures to be included in plans
- Improve and refine choreographic plans in rehearsals, ensuring that safe dance practices are followed at all times
- Demonstrate unity, continuity and variety in dance pieces
- Improve and modify the dance-creation process through self-evaluation and consultation with relevant personnel
- Incorporate dance culture and terminology into dance composition process
- Create production elements to enhance dance pieces
- Establish and source audio requirements to support mood, creative experience and effect on audience
- Ensure that lighting and vision systems meet requirements for performance of dance pieces
- Agree on costuming, make-up and hair styling that will enhance audience experience and aesthetic qualities of dance pieces
- Determine and organise appropriate sets and props to create atmosphere and environment
- Arrange stage markings to reflect choreographic plans
- Perform dance pieces
- Exercise and control physical movement techniques that reflect choreographic plan for dance pieces
- Recall and execute dance sequences, structures and spatial relationships to support choreographic plans
- Demonstrate flow, phrasing and dynamics showing sensitivity in line with the intention of dance pieces
- Maintain focus throughout performance, and connect and interact with other dancers as required
- Demonstrate performance skills, showing expression and engagement with audience
- Use performance space appropriately
- Evaluate dance pieces