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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Prepare for pas de deux with partner
   • Research and analyse chosen pas de deux work
   • Cooperate with and develop rapport with partner during the rehearsal process and seamlessly adjust to a change of partner when required
   • Practise timing and weight centring in accomplishing adage, pirouettes, promenades and lifts with partner
   • Rehearse complex lifts and counterbalances with grace, balance and control
   • 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, safe dance practices and concentrated response to feedback
   • Display correct technical requirements of pas de deux
2. Apply technique in professional level performances
   • Rehearse performances until perfected
   • Undertake preparations appropriate to performance contexts
   • Ensure that personal presentation is appropriate to performance contexts
   • Apply performance psychology techniques to preparations
   • 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
3. Execute pas de deux in professional level performances
   • Demonstrate complex performance attributes and quality of movement
   • Show strength, precision and complexity in all aspects of footwork, including pointe work as required
   • Sense when female dancer needs to leave a balance, or needs to be steadied, and be there to offer support (male only)
   • In supported pirouettes or finger turns, sense how many turns to do, matching it to partner, and phrase the choreography with the music
   • Apply the flexibility, sense of line and clear positions essential to the form
   • Emulate the style and intention of pas de deux repertoire across ballet styles and genres through partnering techniques
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 and stage terminology into discussions, and practice and performance activities

Performance Evidence

Evidence of the ability to:

demonstrate the following advanced partnering skills at a professional level:

travelling steps

supported adagio

pirouettes

lifts

synchronise movement in a duo situation

work effectively and with confidence with a partner

apply 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

demonstrate understanding of the fundamental technical principles in classical ballet as they relate to pas de deux

demonstrate comprehensive knowledge of pas de deux repertoire and performances.

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