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 a professional level of artistry and presentation in practice sessions
- Apply a professional level of concentration and expertise to refine extended contemporary dance technique in each section of class work
- Develop complex performance attributes and quality of movement in sequences of extended difficulty
- Show strength, precision and complexity in all aspects of footwork
- Exhibit professionalism and adaptability to incorporate unseen combinations with speed and verve
- Refine techniques for working with a partner
- Demonstrate through ongoing technical strength, diversity and refinement, evidence of advanced self-correction and concentrated response to feedback
- Extend improvisation techniques
- Practise improvisation tasks of increasing complexity and diversity
- Apply an ever-expanding movement vocabulary and spontaneity in response to various stimuli
- Achieve a mature performance quality through improvised solos and scored group work
- Use a wide range of improvisation skills to extend choreographic possibilities
- Practise complex contemporary dance movement sequences
- Practise complex movements with increased attention to rhythms and time signatures commonly used in contemporary dance
- Convey a high level of spatial awareness appropriate to solo and group work
- Execute group work with a professional sense of cohesion, and solo work demonstrating strong musical individuality
- Present variations and complex movement sequences with a high level of stage presence and confidence across contemporary dance styles
- Develop professional practice