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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 prevent injuries and 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
   • Observe safe dance practice by performing 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. Use practice sessions to increase level of expertise in jazz dance techniques
   • Practise a range of exercises in preparation for jazz dance performances
   • Practise techniques to produce clean and sharp isocentric and polycentric isolations
   • Practise performing technically accurate jazz progressions that respond creatively to choreography
   • Choreograph and perform short pieces around a theme
   • Use creativity, versatility, individuality and originality when performing exercises and dance routines
   • Ensure that flow and interaction with other dancers are smooth and well-timed
3. Maintain expertise in jazz dance techniques
   • Practise and refine combinations of complex movements and routines
   • 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, maintaining motivation, and improving own technique

Performance Evidence

Evidence of the ability to:

consistently execute well-developed jazz dance techniques

execute solo and group dance sequences that demonstrate a creative response to music

respond to constructive feedback on own skills development

follow safe dance practices

use jazz 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 how the following principles relate to physical movements and jazz 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

describe the main periods and prominent dancers in the history of jazz

in the context of choreographing short dance routines, explain ways of notating jazz dance and provide examples.

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