Elements and Performance Criteria
- Execute a professional level of artistry and presentation in rehearsals
- Observe safe dance practice by performing warm-up and warm-down activities in conjunction with dance activities
- 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
- 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
- Perform repertoire demonstrating an understanding of nuances and characteristics of choreographic styles and reflecting choreographic intent
- Convey through dance the range of emotions required to execute the dance pieces as intended
- Follow direction from artistic director or choreographers as required
- Contribute to debriefing sessions to evaluate the quality of performances and to discuss ways of improving individual or ensemble technique
- Incorporate allied contemporary dance techniques into professional level performances
- Demonstrate complex performance attributes and quality of movement in sequences based on improvisation, in complex duo sequences and in high velocity acrobatic moves
- Identify when partner needs to leave a balance, or needs to be steadied, and be there to offer support in duo and dance tumbling
- Adapt to a range of choreographic moments by engaging with differences and similarities of shape and dynamic quality
- Apply the flexibility, sense of line and clear positions essential to the form
- Engage with the style and intention of the relevant choreographic form through the application of skills and knowledge of allied contemporary dance techniques
- 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 contemporary dance terminology and history into discussions, and practice and performance activities