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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Perform warm-up activities
   • Discuss the components of warm-up and warm-down routine with relevant personnel
   • Undertake routines that contain bounce, energy, balance and pushing into the floor
   • Position weight to maintain balance throughout warm-up routines
   • Complete physical coordination, balancing and stretching exercise routines
   • Ensure that clothing and footwear are appropriate for acrobatic routines
2. Extend acrobatic skills to include theatrical performances
   • Follow safety procedures to minimise risk of injuries when practising and performing acrobatic techniques
   • Practise moving smoothly into and out of acrobatic performance
   • Incorporate injury-prevention techniques into acrobatic exercises and performances
   • Apply support techniques for other acrobats in partnered and group routines
   • Incorporate acrobatic routines into musical theatre performances in ways that convey their choreographic intent
3. Maintain expertise
   • Practise and refine acrobatic techniques
   • Maintain and apply knowledge of theatrical trends and terminology that impact on acrobatic techniques
   • Use feedback from others to identify and develop ways to improve own acrobatic skills
   • Regularly view performances by industry practitioners as a way of sourcing new ideas, identifying trends, maintaining motivation, and improving own technique

Performance Evidence

Evidence of the ability to:

perform acrobatic routines with partners and in groups in at least one theatrical performance

follow acrobatic safety procedures in all training and performance activities

improve own acrobatic techniques in response to constructive feedback.

Note: If a specific volume or frequency is not stated, then evidence must be provided for each of the above points at least once.

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Knowledge Evidence

To complete the unit requirements the individual must:

explain the following principles underlying safe acrobatic movements:

body alignment

energy placement

isolation techniques

weight distribution

explain how the following apply in the context of injury-prevention techniques:

articulation of the spine

bases of support with feet, legs, hands, arms and torso

differentiation of the legs and pelvis

engagement of the feet

range of motion of the joints

healthy nutrition and diet.

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