Elements and Performance Criteria
- Maintain a physical conditioning program
- Set realistic physical conditioning goals aimed at improving own dance technique
- Apply 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, personal limitations and boundaries into account when undertaking physical conditioning program
- Always perform warm-up and cool-down activities in conjunction with dance activities
- Practise ballet technique of increasing difficulty
- Apply increasingly difficult ballet technique 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 ofballet repertoire with accuracy
- Exhibit physical learning and adaptabilityto incorporate unseen combinations with speed and verve across differentteaching methods
- Reveal increasing levels of strength and stamina in male-specific vocabularyas required
- Develop partnering technique for pas de deux
- Show cooperation and consideration for partner
- Develop appreciation of timing and weight centring in accomplishing adage, pirouettes, promenades and lifts
- Exhibit rapport and eye contact with partner
- Execute lifts and counterbalances with surety and understanding
- 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 variations and repertoire of a high level of difficulty
- 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 with a high sense of cohesion
- Accomplish solo work with a developing sense of musical individuality
- Present variations and repertoire with a high level of artistry and assurance acrossballet styles and genres
- Apply technique in performances
- Undertake preparations appropriate to performance contexts
- Ensure that personal presentation is appropriate to performance contexts
- Prepare for competitions and auditions as required
- Apply performance psychology techniques to preparations
- Rehearse dance sequences to be performed
- Sustain focus and concentration to produce performances that show well-developed understanding of, and sensitivity to, rhythm and musicality
- Convey choreographic intent of dances through confident and precise execution of ballet dance techniques
- Contribute to debriefing sessions to evaluate the quality of performances and to discuss ways of improving individual or ensemble technique
- Maintain expertise
- Apply professional work ethic to all practice and performance activities
- Incorporate injury-prevention techniques into all dance and movement activities
- Use feedback from teachers and mentors to identify and develop ways to improve own ballet dance technique as well as group work
- Regularly view performances by industry practitioners as a way of sourcing new ideas and trends, maintaining motivation, and improving own technique