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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
   • Wear appropriate clothing and footwear when undertaking exercise regime and practising dance technique
2. Use practice sessions to increase level of expertise in tap dance technique
   • Perform dance centre amalgamations with confidence, precision, style and grace
   • Choreograph short pieces using a wide variety of steps and well-planned floor patterns
   • Use creativity, versatility, individuality and originality when performing exercises and dance routines
   • Incorporate well-developed understanding of rhythm and musicality into performances at training sessions and rehearsals
   • Experiment with improvising steps and routines
   • Ensure that flow and interaction with other dancers are smooth and well-timed
3. Maintain expertise in tap dance technique
   • Practise and refine combinations of complex movements and routines
   • Maintain and update knowledge of tap dance history and terminology
   • Use feedback from others 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, identifying trends, maintaining motivation, and improving own technique

Performance Evidence

Evidence of the ability to:

consistently execute strong and precise tap dance technique

execute solo and group dance sequences that demonstrate:

creative response to music

ability to communicate the mood or style of dances

confident performance skills

respond to constructive feedback on own skills development

follow safe dance practices

use tap 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 contemporary 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

explain and demonstrate how the musical elements of time signatures, beat, tempo and syncopation apply to tap dance technique

describe prominent dancers and the main periods in the history of tap dance

in the context of choreographing dance routines, describe ways of notating tap dance.

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