Elements and Performance Criteria
- Maintain and care for self as a performer
- Use appropriate methods to maintain optimum physical fitness
- Identify risk factors that may inhibit the achievement of goals and seek professional advice as required
- Take fatigue and personal limitations into account when undertaking physical exercise and performances
- Perform warm-up and warm-down procedures in conjunction with performance activities
- Ensure that clothing and footwear are appropriate for exercise regime and practising performance technique
- Analyse performance techniques
- Discuss the principles and techniques with relevant personnel
- Identify a range of basic approaches to techniques
- Apply kinaesthetic awareness to techniques
- Take account of a range of ways in which techniques can be used to create simple sequences
- Compare own work to other performances to identify innovative ways of using techniques
- Perform simple sequences or pieces