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, personal limitations and boundaries into account when undertaking physical conditioning program
- Always perform warm-up and cool-down activitiesin conjunction with dance activities
- Ensure that clothing and footwear are appropriate for undertaking exercise regime and practising dance technique
- 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 such as momentum from turns, jumps, kicks and splits
- Perform contemporary dance techniques with increasing confidence and expertise, in a learning environment
- Incorporate musicality, rhythm and correct timing into performances
- Inject dramatic nuance into dance movements as required
- Coordinate position and movement between other dancers
- Maintain expertise
- Continuously practise basic movements
- Maintain and update knowledge of contemporary dance terminology
- Use feedback from teachers and mentors 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 and trends, and maintaining motivation