Elements and Performance Criteria
- Maintain a physical conditioning program
- Consult with relevant personnel to identify a range of techniques to improve stamina, strength and flexibility
- Set realistic physical conditioning goals aimed at improving musical theatre techniques
- Identify risk factors that may inhibit the achievement of goals and seek professional advice as required
- Take fatigue, personal limitations and boundaries into account when undertaking physical conditioning program
- Always perform warm-up and cool-down procedures in conjunction with dance activities
- Always perform vocal warm-up procedures in conjunction with vocal activities
- Ensure that clothing and footwear are appropriate for undertaking exercise regime and practising dance technique
- Use practice sessions to increase level of expertise in dance techniques
- Follow safe dance practice
- Apply correct posture and body alignment appropriate to musical theatre style and movements
- Apply isolation and coordination of upper and lower body within complex movement sequences
- Apply balance, flexibility, stamina, coordination and weight transfer skills, and control and articulation of individual body parts in an integrated manner in a range of exercises
- Apply memory retention, 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
- Apply 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
- Work on incorporating complex expressive qualities into musical theatre techniques
- Incorporate complex dance and vocal techniques to confidently portray choreographic and dramatic intentions
- Maintain expertise
- Continuously practise and refine combinations of complex movements and routines
- Maintain and update knowledge of musical theatre terminology
- Use feedback from teachers and mentors to identify and develop ways to improve own musical theatre techniques
- Regularly view performances by industry practitioners as a way of sourcing new ideas and trends, maintaining motivation, and improving own technique