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
- Perform warm-up and warm-down activities in conjunction with dance activities
- Practise contemporary dance technique of increasing difficulty
- Apply a high level of concentration and expertise to increasingly difficult contemporary dance technique in each section of class work
- Develop increasingly complex performance attributes
- Apply principles of alignment with power, flexibility, coordination and cardiovascular endurance throughout classes
- Show developed strength and complexity in footwork
- Apply timing and weight centring when working with a partner
- Develop physical learning and adaptability skills
- Perform new and complex movement sequences that demand different spatial orientations and changes in speed
- Incorporate choreographic skills into relevant sections of class work
- Take account of individual attributes and expectations of the profession when reviewing personal goals
- Refine improvisation skills in response to various stimuli through an ever-expanding movement vocabulary
- Execute highly difficult sequences
- Practise repertoire with increased attention to rhythms and time signatures commonly used in contemporary dance
- Execute group work demonstrating strong cohesion
- Execute extended sequences to right and left sides without prompting
- Incorporate unseen combinations with speed and verve
- Perform with a clear sense of personal style while demonstrating the stylistic differences in a range of contemporary styles and approaches
- Accomplish solo work with developing musical individuality
- Present sequences with a high level of stage presence and confidence across contemporary dance styles
- Maintain expertise in contemporary dance 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 contemporary 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 contemporary dance terminology, culture and history into discussions, and practice and performance activities