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
- Observe safe dance practice by performing warm-up and warm-down activities in conjunction with dance activities
- Practise partnering techniques of increasing difficulty
- Break complex partnering routines down into discrete elements and work through each element separately
- Practise combining elements until the required level of precision and technique is achieved
- Practise executing lifts and counterbalances with surety
- Practise going into and out of movements safely and gracefully
- Experiment as required with timing, body position and other techniques associated with multiple partnering
- Develop a high level of creative and technical collaboration with partner
- Apply precision, rhythm and musicality in dance sequences
- Maintain expertise in dance partnering 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 terminology
- Use feedback from others to identify and develop ways to improve own dance partnering technique
- Regularly view performances by industry practitioners as a way of sourcing new ideas, identifying trends, maintaining motivation, and improving own technique