Elements and Performance Criteria
- Clarify performance requirements
- Practise instrument and/or act
- Maintain personal practice to achieve the required standard for rehearsals and performance
- Develop technical facility and address performance issues and weaknesses during private practice sessions
- In consultation with appropriate personnel, develop interpretation of music to be performed
- Participate in rehearsals as required and adjust performance techniques in response to feedback from others
- Listen critically to own performance and the performance of others to inform own work
- Respond to other players and adjust own performance in ensemble as required
- Observe OHS principles in private practice
- Establish practice routines to ensure correct posture and movement to minimise strain on the body
- Ensure that practice sessions are of a suitable length to avoid fatigue and mental or physical stress
- Perform warm-up exercises as part of practice routines
- Apply principles of OHS in physical stance and posture during practice sessions and performance
- Plan and take reasonable breaks for refreshment and relaxation
- Use body effectively and safely
- Assess and monitor body to realise its own potential and limitations and to maximise performance
- Avoid danger of injury both to self and others through controlled use of body to maximise performance
- 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
- Implement strategies to overcome the effects of performance anxiety
- In consultation with appropriate personnel, identify the symptoms and likely causes of performance anxiety
- Identify and implement a range of strategies to overcome performance anxiety to suit own needs and circumstances
- Evaluate the effectiveness of strategies used to overcome performance anxiety and modify those strategies as required