Elements and Performance Criteria
- Maintain a physical conditioning program
- In consultation with teachers and mentors, set realistic physical conditioning goals aimed at improving own dance technique
- Use a range of techniques to improve stamina, strength and flexibility
- 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
- Practise ballet technique of increasing difficulty
- Apply increasingly difficult ballet techniques across each section of class work
- Develop increasingly complex performance attributes
- Show developed strength and complexity in footwork, including pointe work as required
- Execute complex variations of ballet repertoire with accuracy
- Exhibit physical learning and adaptability to incorporate unseen combinations with speed and verve across different teaching methods
- Reveal increasing levels of strength and stamina in gender-specific vocabulary as required
- Develop partnering technique for pas de deux
- Show cooperation with partner, exhibiting rapport and eye contact
- Apply timing and weight centring in accomplishing adage, pirouettes, promenades and lifts
- Execute lifts and counterbalances with surety and skill
- Perform in a partnership that demonstrates strong technique, balance and control
- Apply the flexibility, sense of line and clear positions essential to the form
- Present highly difficult variations and repertoire
- Display variations and repertoire of increased difficulty and technical articulation
- Convey a high level of spatial awareness appropriate to solo and group work
- Execute group work demonstrating strong cohesion, and solo work demonstrating strong musical individuality
- Present variations and repertoire with a high level of stage presence and confidence across ballet styles and genres
- Practise repertoire with increased attention to rhythms and time signatures commonly used in ballet
- Maintain expertise in ballet technique
- Apply professional work ethic to practice and performance activities
- Incorporate injury-prevention techniques into dance and movement activities
- Use feedback from others to identify and develop ways to improve own ballet dance technique and group work
- Regularly view performances by industry practitioners as a way of sourcing new ideas, identifying trends, maintaining motivation, and improving own technique
- Incorporate ballet terminology and history into discussions, and practice and performance activities