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
- Use practice sessions to increase level of expertise in social dance techniques
- Follow safe dance practices at all times
- Apply correct posture and body alignment appropriate to social dance styles being practised
- Apply isolation and coordination of upper and lower body within 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 balance, flexibility, stamina, coordination and weight transfer skills, and control and articulation of individual body parts in an integrated manner in a range of complex techniques
- Apply memory retention, control and attention to detail when performing complex phrases of dance movements
- Incorporate well-developed understanding of musical elementsthrough dance to show the relationship between social dance and accompanying music
- Maintain expertise
- Continuously 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 terminology
- Use feedback from teachers and mentors 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 and trends, maintaining motivation, and improving own technique