Elements and Performance Criteria
- Clarify performance requirements
- Rehearse for performances
- Maintain personal practice to achieve the required standard for rehearsals and performances
- Develop technical skills and address performance issues and weaknesses during private practice sessions
- Participate in rehearsals as required and adjust performance techniques in response to feedback from others
- Consult with relevant personnel and develop an interpretation of performance pieces
- Critically analyse own performance and performance of others to inform own work
- Respond to other performers and adjust own performance in an ensemble as required
- Use body effectively and safely
- Observe health and safety principles in private practice and in performances
- Assess and monitor body to realise its own potential and limitations and maximise performance
- Avoid danger of injury both to self and others through controlled use of body
- Note possible stresses and strains of activity on specific parts of the body and take suitable preventative measures to minimise them
- Where damage is done or suspected, seek advice promptly from appropriate sources and take recommended remedial action
- Prepare for performances
- Use appropriate methods to maintain physical and psychological condition for performances
- Undertake appropriate mental preparation and physical warm-up exercises to ensure readiness for performance
- Ensure that personal presentation is appropriate to performance contexts
- Respond effectively to theatre conventions
- Perform basic technique before audiences
- Implement a range of strategies to overcome performance anxiety
- Maintain concentration throughout performances
- Follow the lead of other performers as required
- Respond flexibly and effectively to contingencies as required in order to maintain integrity of performances
- Seek feedback on own performance from relevant personnel and incorporate into strategies for continuously improving own technique