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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Excel at a physical conditioning program
   • Meet physical conditioning requirements of professional dance work
   • Demonstrate athleticism, stamina, strength, cardiovascular endurance and flexibility
   • Minimise risk factors that inhibit the achievement of goals and seek professional assistance when required
   • Observe safe dance practice by performing warm-up and warm-down activities in conjunction with dance activities
2. Refine advanced technique
   • Practise advanced ballet technique across each section of class work
   • Demonstrate complex performance attributes and quality of movement in sequences of extended difficulty
   • Show strength, precision and complexity in all aspects of footwork, including pointe work as required
   • Execute complex variations of ballet repertoire with accuracy
   • Exhibit professionalism and adaptability to incorporate unseen combinations
   • Demonstrate through ongoing technical strength, diversity and refinement, evidence of advanced self-correction and concentrated response to feedback
   • Demonstrate athleticism, muscularity, strength and stamina in gender-specific vocabulary as required
3. Perform advanced solo variations
   • Research and analyse a chosen solo from a defined classical or neoclassical ballet repertoire
   • Execute repertoire with high level technical accuracy, interpreting music and rhythm
   • Convey a high level of spatial awareness, including floor and aerial pattern
   • Execute solo work with a professional sense of musical individuality
   • Perform solo variations with a high level of individual artistry, interpretation, expression and physical control
4. Develop professional practice
   • Refine professional work ethic
   • In consultation with teachers and mentors, develop realistic parameters for extending scope of performance practice
   • Identify regimes and artistic strategies to refine own performance technique

Performance Evidence

Evidence of the ability to:

execute advanced ballet techniques with precision and artistry

execute advanced enchaînements at a professional standard with accuracy, speed and clarity

use physical control throughout solo performances

demonstrate a high level of spatial awareness, including in floor patterns and aerial pathways

exhibit confidence in creating movement sequences

retain and reproduce complex movement sequences

use ballet terminology 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 performing advanced ballet repertoire:

balance

control of movement

muscular strength and flexibility

rotation

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

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

describe key points in the history of ballet relevant to chosen repertoire

explain the principles of advanced classical ballet.

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