Elements and Performance Criteria
- Perform warm-up activities
- Discuss the components of warm-up and warm-down routine with relevant personnel
- Undertake routines that contain bounce, energy, balance and pushing into the floor
- Position weight to maintain balance throughout warm-up routines
- Complete physical coordination, balancing and stretching exercise routines
- Ensure that clothing and footwear are appropriate for acrobatic routines
- Extend acrobatic skills to include theatrical performances
- Follow safety procedures to minimise risk of injuries when practising and performing acrobatic techniques
- Practise moving smoothly into and out of acrobatic performance
- Incorporate injury-prevention techniques into acrobatic exercises and performances
- Apply support techniques for other acrobats in partnered and group routines
- Incorporate acrobatic routines into musical theatre performances in ways that convey their choreographic intent
- Maintain expertise
- Practise and refine acrobatic techniques
- Maintain and apply knowledge of theatrical trends and terminology that impact on acrobatic techniques
- Use feedback from others to identify and develop ways to improve own acrobatic skills
- Regularly view performances by industry practitioners as a way of sourcing new ideas, identifying trends, maintaining motivation, and improving own technique