Elements and Performance Criteria
- Maintain a physical conditioning program
- In consultation with relevant personnel, identify a range of techniques to improve stamina, strength and flexibility
- Set realistic physical conditioning goals aimed at improving own dance technique
- Identify risk factors that may inhibit the achievement of goals and seek professional advice as required
- Take fatigue and personal limitations into account when undertaking physical conditioning program
- Perform warm-up and warm-down activities in conjunction with dance activities
- Ensure that clothing and footwear are appropriate for exercise regime and practising dance technique
- Build on basic jazz dance technique
- Practise a range of exercises in preparation for jazz dance performances
- Choreograph and perform basic jazz dance routines in a learning environment
- Practise controlling movement from turns, jumps, kicks and splits
- Perform jazz dance techniques with increasing expertise, in a learning environment
- Incorporate musicality, rhythm and correct timing into performances
- Coordinate position and movement between self and other dancers
- Maintain expertise in jazz dance techniques
- Undertake regular practise of basic movements
- Maintain and update knowledge of jazz dance history and terminology
- Use feedback from others to identify and develop ways to improve own jazz dance performance skills
- Regularly view performances by industry practitioners as a way of sourcing new ideas, identifying trends, and maintaining motivation