Elements and Performance Criteria
- Display professionalism in performance practice
- Anticipate and prepare in advance for production requirements
- Demonstrate increasing responsibility in working on solo or extra group sections
- Devote extra time and show initiative in working towards cohesive group performances
- Contribute to the advancement of creative and artistic goals with increasing confidence and skill
- Develop a professional work ethic
- Explore and conceptualise performance skills
- Discuss with relevant personnel complex understanding of the principles and characteristics of technique
- Explore and evaluate a range of advanced approaches to technique
- Explore ways to extend improvisations into a number of situations as required
- Evaluate a range of ways in which technique can be used to create complex sequences
- Apply advanced critical skills to inform own technique
- Receive and integrate constructive criticism into performance of technique
- Prepare to perform complex roles before audiences
- Ensure that performance is well-rehearsed to ensure clarity and confidence
- Design and conduct relevant warm-up techniques in an appropriate space without causing undue distraction to self and others
- Ensure relevant materials are available and in good working order according to performance requirements
- Identify and implement a range of strategies to overcome performance anxiety and to relax self and other performers
- Perform complex roles for audiences
- Adapt performances to the scale and nature of venues and audience requirements
- Control concentration and focus throughout performances
- Implement principles and characteristics of various performance techniques
- Maintain optimum performance standards for the duration of performances
- Effectively communicate the interpretive requirements of other performers as required
- Perform in a style appropriate to the context of performances
- Respond promptly, flexibly and effectively to contingencies as required to maintain the integrity of performances
- Analyse and evaluate performances
- Analyse and assess performances against previous work to assess own technical and artistic development
- Identify and observe weaknesses and errors in performances and develop strategies to improve performance
- Analyse and evaluate feedback and criticism and develop strategies for possible adjustments to future work