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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. 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
2. 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
3. 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
4. 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
5. Develop professional practice
   • Refine professional work ethic and knowledge of ballet terminology and history
   • 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:

demonstrate the fundamental technical principles in classical ballet through executing the following:

high level of coordination of limbs, torso and head

high level of spatial awareness in group movements

alignment and extensions in highly difficult combinations

skills and speed in directional changes

reproduction of complex movement sequences on both sides of the body

develop professional practice

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 physical movements and ballet technique:

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

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

demonstrate comprehensive knowledge of the history and philosophical nature of ballet.

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