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 partnering techniques of increasing difficulty
- Dissect complex partnering routines 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 and understanding
- 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 rapport with partner
- Maintain expertise
- Apply professional work ethic to all practice and performance activities
- Incorporate injury-prevention techniques into all dance and movement activities
- Maintain and update knowledge of dance terminology
- Use feedback from teachers and mentors to identify and develop ways to improve own dance partnering technique
- Regularly view performances by industry practitioners as a way of sourcing new ideas and trends, maintaining motivation, and improving own technique