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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. 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
2. Practise cultural dance techniques of increasing difficulty
   • In practice sessions apply increasingly difficult techniques relevant to cultural dance style or physical discipline
   • Develop increasingly complex performance attributes
   • Practise articulating the philosophical principles of chosen dance style or discipline
   • Refine ways to apply alternative forms of physical coordination in exercises and routines
   • Practise achieving strong harmony of movement in dance sequences with a partner
   • Build strength and stability in technique by applying a knowledge of anatomical alignment principles in exercises and routines
   • Practise improving accuracy in spatial arrangements
   • Apply precision, rhythm and musicality in dance sequences
3. Maintain expertise in cultural dance technique
   • Apply professional work ethic to practice and performance activities
   • Incorporate injury-prevention techniques into dance and movement activities
   • Maintain and update knowledge of dance history and terminology
   • Use feedback from others to identify and develop ways to improve own cultural dance technique
   • Regularly view performances by industry practitioners as a way of sourcing new ideas, identifying trends, maintaining motivation, and improving own technique

Performance Evidence

Evidence of the ability to:

perform two complex dance or movement sequences that demonstrate:

confident performance skills

control of movement

interpretative and expressive skills

muscular strength and flexibility

quality and breadth of movement

strong and precise technique in the chosen cultural dance style or physical discipline

understanding of the discipline’s particular stylistic qualities

respond to constructive feedback on own performance

use terminology associated with chosen cultural dance style or physical discipline correctly.

Note: If a specific volume or frequency is not stated, then evidence must be provided for each of the above points at least once.

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Knowledge Evidence

To complete the unit requirements the individual must:

explain how the following principles relate to physical movements and cultural dance techniques:

extending

folding

relationship with gravity

rotating

shifting weight

spatial awareness

successional movement

use of breath

explain how the following apply in the context of safe dance practice and injury prevention:

articulation of the spine

engagement of the feet

bases of support, including feet, legs, hands, arms and torso

range of motion of the joints

differentiation of the legs and pelvis

healthy nutrition and diet

explain and demonstrate how the musical elements of time signatures, beat, tempo and syncopation apply to cultural dance technique

describe:

history and cultural context in which chosen dance style or physical discipline is situated

philosophical principles of chosen dance style or physical discipline.

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