Elements and Performance Criteria
- 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
- Wear appropriate clothing and footwear when undertaking exercise regime and practising dance technique
- Use practice sessions to increase level of expertise in social dance techniques
- Demonstrate correct posture and body alignment appropriate to social dance styles being practised
- Demonstrate isolation and coordination of upper and lower body in complex movement sequences
- Apply correct arm movement, positioning and transitioning flow in movement sequences
- Apply correct hip action, leg and foot placement in movement sequences
- Refine partnering skills to enable correct leading and following movements
- Apply a range of techniques that integrate balance, flexibility, stamina, coordination and weight transfer skills, and control and articulation of individual body parts
- Apply memory retention skills, control and attention to detail when performing complex phrases of dance movements
- Demonstrate the relationship between social dance and accompanying music in performances
- Maintain expertise in social dance techniques
- Practise and refine combinations of complex movements
- Develop and experiment with new routines involving different body movements and different combinations
- Maintain and update knowledge of social dance history and terminology
- Use feedback from others to identify and develop ways to improve own social dance performance skills
- Regularly view performances by industry practitioners as a way of sourcing new ideas, identifying trends, maintaining motivation, and improving own technique