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 activities in conjunction with dance activities
- Ensure that clothing and footwear are appropriate for undertaking exercise regime and practising dance technique
- Build on basic tap dance technique
- Perform dance centre amalgamations with increasing confidence and expertise
- Improvise movements to create a personal style, in a learning environment
- Choreograph and perform basic tap dance sequences, in a learning environment
- Explore individuality and originality during practice sessions and performances
- Incorporate musicality, rhythm and correct timing into performances
- Coordinate position and movement between other dancers
- Maintain expertise
- Continuously practise basic movements
- Maintain and update knowledge of tap dance terminology
- Use feedback from teachers and mentors to identify and develop ways to improve own tap dance performance skills
- Regularly view performances by industry practitioners as a way of sourcing new ideas and trends, and maintaining motivation