Elements and Performance Criteria
- Maintain a physical conditioning program
- In consultation with relevant personnel, identify a range of techniques to prevent injuries and improve stamina, strength and flexibility
- Set realistic physical conditioning goals aimed at improving own dance technique
- 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 conditioning program
- Observe safe dance practice by performing physical warm-up and warm-down activities in conjunction with dance and exercise activities
- Perform vocal warm-up procedures in conjunction with vocal activities
- Ensure that clothing and footwear are appropriate for exercise regime and for practising performance technique
- Use practice sessions to increase level of expertise in dance techniques
- Demonstrate correct posture and body alignment appropriate to musical theatre style and movements
- Demonstrate isolation and coordination of upper and lower body in complex movement sequences
- Apply a range of techniques that integrate balance, flexibility, stamina, coordination and weight transfer skills, and control and articulation of individual body parts
- Apply memory retention skills, control and attention to detail when performing complex phrases of dance movements
- Practise dance combinations to a mixed metre
- Incorporate musicality, rhythm and correct timing into performances
- Apply understanding of the relationship between musical theatre styles and the accompanying music or other media
- Incorporate spatial awareness, connectivity and interactive skills when performing with others
- Use practice sessions to increase level of expertise in musical theatre techniques
- Demonstrate correct posture and breathing techniques
- Apply appropriate dynamics and pitch
- Practise singing in tune with others
- Ensure phrasing is appropriate to the music
- Experiment with various acting styles and methods as appropriate
- Sustain complex characterisation through musicality, dance and voice phrasing, and correct timing as choreographed
- Practise incorporating complex expressive qualities into musical theatre techniques
- Incorporate complex dance and vocal techniques to confidently portray choreographic and dramatic intentions
- Maintain expertise
- Practise and refine combinations of complex movements and routines while following safe dance practice
- Maintain and update knowledge of musical theatre trends and terminology
- Use feedback from others to identify and develop ways to improve own musical theatre techniques
- Regularly view performances by industry practitioners as a way of sourcing new ideas, identifying trends, maintaining motivation, and improving own technique