Elements and Performance Criteria
- Maintain a physical conditioning program
- Meet 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
- Perfect own ballet technique
- Apply complex ballet techniqueacross eachsection of class work
- Display confidence across performance attributes
- Show developed strength and complexity in footwork, including pointe work as required
- Execute classical ballet repertoire with accuracy
- Exhibit physical learning and adaptability to incorporate unseen combinations with speed and verve across different teaching methods
- Merge technique within corps of dancers
- Orient self in relation to other dancers and particularly to hold and move from one geometric pattern to another
- Practise classical ballet phrases and repertoire repeatedly and side by side with other dancers comparing and synchronising group movements
- Apply acting and pantomime skills through movement, gesture and emotion to provide added fullness to scenes
- Execute group work with a high sense of cohesion, flow and movement in unison, giving the appearance of one single entity
- Convey a high level of spatial awareness and respond to visual cues from other dancers in performing complex patterns
- Present variations and repertoire with a high level of artistry and assurance acrossballet styles and genres
- Perform corps de ballet dances from the defined classical ballet repertoire
- Undertake preparations appropriate to performance contexts
- Ensure that personal presentation is appropriate to performance contexts
- Apply performance psychology techniques to preparations
- Sustain focus and concentration to produce performances that show correct musical and rhythmic interpretation
- Convey appropriate artistic quality, interpretation and expression through confident and precise execution of ballet dance techniques
- Demonstrate complex spatial arrangements
- Contribute to debriefing sessions to evaluate the quality of performances and to discuss ways of improving individual and 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