Elements and Performance Criteria
- Excel at a physical conditioning program
- Meet physical conditioning requirements of professional dance work
- Demonstrate athleticism, 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
- Practise virtuoso technique
- Practise virtuoso contemporary dance technique across each section of class work
- Demonstrate complex performance attributes and quality of movement in sequences of extended difficulty and speed
- Show strength, precision and complexity in all aspects of footwork
- Execute complex variations of contemporary dance repertoire with accuracy, applying the virtuoso style
- Exhibit professionalism and adaptability to incorporate unseen combinations
- Demonstrate through ongoing technical strength, diversity and refinement, evidence of advanced self-correction and concentrated response to feedback
- Perform advanced solo variations
- Research and analyse a chosen solo from contemporary dance repertoire
- Execute repertoire with high level technical accuracy and virtuoso interpretation of music and rhythm
- Convey a high level of spatial awareness, including floor patterns and aerial pathways
- Execute solo work with a professional sense of musical individuality
- Present virtuoso style with a high level of individual artistry, interpretation, expression and physical control
- 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