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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. 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
2. Build on basic contemporary dance technique
   • Practise a range of exercises in preparation for contemporary dance performances
   • Choreograph and perform basic contemporary dance routines, in a learning environment
   • Practise controlling movement from turns, jumps, kicks and splits
   • Perform contemporary dance techniques with increasing expertise, in a learning environment
   • Incorporate musicality, rhythm and correct timing into performances
   • Use dramatic nuance in dance movements as required
   • Coordinate position and movement between self and other dancers
3. Maintain expertise in contemporary dance technique
   • Practise basic movements
   • Maintain and update knowledge of contemporary dance history and terminology
   • Use feedback from others to identify and develop ways to improve own contemporary dance performance skills
   • Regularly view performances by industry practitioners as a way of sourcing new ideas, identifying trends, and maintaining motivation

Performance Evidence

Evidence of the ability to:

improve contemporary dance technique over a six to twelve-month period

perform a range of basic contemporary dance techniques in a learning environment

respond to constructive feedback on own performance

follow safe dance practices

use contemporary dance terminology correctly.

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 that relate to physical movements and contemporary dance techniques:

relationship with gravity

spatial awareness

successional movement

use of breath

folding

extending

rotating

shifting weight

explain how the following apply in the context of safe dance practice and injury prevention:

articulation of the spine

engagement of the feet

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

range of motion of the joints

differentiation of the legs and pelvis

healthy nutrition and diet

explain and demonstrate how the musical elements of time signatures, beat, tempo and syncopation apply to contemporary dance technique

explain the relationship between movement and music in the context of contemporary dance

describe the main periods and prominent dancers in the history of contemporary dance

in the context of choreographing routines, describe ways of notating contemporary dance.

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