Elements and Performance Criteria
- Excel at a physical conditioning program
- Meet physical conditioning requirements of professional dance work
- Demonstrate ongoing 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
- Execute professional level of artistry and presentation in practice sessions
- Refine extended 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 and precision
- Exhibit professionalism and adaptability to incorporate unseen combinations across different teaching methods
- Demonstrate through ongoing technical strength, diversity and refinement, evidence of advanced self-correction and concentrated response to feedback
- Demonstrate muscularity, strength and stamina in gender-specific vocabulary as required
- Demonstrate advanced partnering techniques
- Demonstrate advanced ability to cooperate with a partner
- Consistently show timing and weight centring in accomplishing adage, pirouettes, promenades and lifts
- Perform complex lifts and counterbalances with grace, balance and control
- Apply the flexibility, sense of line and clear positions essential to the form
- Emulate the style and intention of pas de deux repertoire through partnering techniques
- Execute complex ballet repertoire
- Execute complex variations and repertoire with a high level of technical accuracy
- Convey a high level of spatial awareness appropriate to solo and group work
- Execute group work demonstrating strong cohesion, and solo work demonstrating strong musical individuality
- Present variations and repertoire with a high level of stage presence and confidence across ballet styles and genres
- Develop professional practice