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 cultural dance technique
- Ensure appropriate performance preparation
- Demonstrate correct posture and body alignment appropriate to the dance technique and movement
- Demonstrate isolation and coordination of upper and lower body in simple movement sequences
- Apply a range of techniques that integrate balance, flexibility, stamina, weight transfer and articulation of individual body parts
- Apply control and attention to detail when performing short simple phrases of dance movements
- Incorporate basic awareness of customs relevant to dance styles into performances
- Further develop connectivity and interaction with other dancers as required
- Incorporate musicality, phrasing and correct timing as choreographed into performances to show relationship between cultural dance styles and accompanying music or other media
- Maintain expertise in cultural dance technique
- Practise basic movements
- Maintain and update knowledge of cultural dance history and terminology
- Use feedback from others to identify and develop ways to improve own cultural dance performance skills
- Regularly view performances by industry practitioners as a way of sourcing new ideas, identifying trends, and maintaining motivation