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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. Use practice sessions to increase level of artistry and presentation
   • Apply increasingly difficult ballet techniques across each section of class work
   • Emulate the style and intention of pas de deux repertoire through partnering techniques
   • Execute group work with a professional sense of cohesion, and solo work demonstrating strong musical individuality
   • 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
   • Practise executing complex variations and repertoire with a high level of technical accuracy
   • Demonstrate through ongoing technical strength, diversity and refinement, evidence of advanced self-correction and concentrated response to feedback
   • Convey a high level of spatial awareness appropriate to solo and group work
3. Perform at a professional level
   • Undertake preparations appropriate to performance contexts
   • Ensure that personal presentation is appropriate to performance contexts
   • Apply performance psychology techniques to preparations
   • Rehearse performances until perfected
   • Maintain focus to produce performances that show artistry, rhythm and musicality and convey the story and mood of the dance
   • Convey choreographic intent of dances through confident and precise execution of ballet dance techniques
   • Contribute to debriefing sessions to evaluate the quality of performances and to discuss ways of improving individual or ensemble technique
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
   • Incorporate ballet terminology and history into discussions, and practice and performance activities

Performance Evidence

Evidence of the ability to:

use physical control throughout performances, including pas de deux

demonstrate through the execution of sequences the following fundamental dance skills:

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 and stage 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 ballet technique

demonstrate understanding of the fundamental technical principles in classical ballet

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

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