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 contemporary dance technique of increasing difficulty
- Apply a high level of concentration, facility 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
- Develop appreciation of timing and weight centring when working with a partner
- Develop physical learning and adaptability skills
- Comprehend and reproduce new and complex movement sequences that demand different spatial orientations and changes in speed
- Incorporate choreographic skills into relevant sections of class work
- Review personal goals taking into account individual attributes and expectations of the profession
- Refine improvisational skills through an ever expanding movement vocabulary and spontaneity in response to various stimuli
- Execute sequences of a high level of difficulty
- Practise repertoire with an increased awareness of and attention to rhythms and time signatures commonly used in contemporary dance
- Execute group work with a high sense of 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 understanding and demonstrating the stylistic differences in a range of contemporary styles and approaches
- Accomplish solo work with a developing sense of musical individuality
- Present sequences with a high level of artistry and assurance acrosscontemporary dance styles
- 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 contemporary 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