Elements and Performance Criteria
- Execute a professional level of artistry and presentation in rehearsals
- Always perform warm-up and cool-down activities in conjunction with dance activities
- Apply a professional level of concentration, facility and expertise to refine extended contemporary dance technique in each section of class work
- Develop complex performance attributesand quality of movement in sequences of extended difficulty
- Show strength, precision and complexity in all aspects of footwork
- Exhibit a professional level of physical learning and adaptabilityto 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
- Convey, through dance, the range of human emotions required to execute the dance pieces as intended
- Inject performances with a sense of light and shade in line with choreographic intent
- 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 attributesand quality of movement in sequences based on improvisation, in complex duo sequences and in high velocity acrobatic moves.
- Sense 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