Elements and Performance Criteria
- Maintain a physical conditioning program
- Set realistic physical conditioning goals aimed at improving own dance technique
- Apply a range of techniques to improve stamina, strength and flexibility
- 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 activities in conjunction with dance activities
- Practise ballet technique of increasing difficulty
- Apply increasingly difficult ballet technique across each section of class work
- Develop increasingly complex performance attributes
- Show developed strength and complexity in footwork, including pointe work as required
- Execute complex variations ofballet repertoire with accuracy
- Exhibit physical learning and adaptability to incorporate unseen combinations with speed and verve across differentteaching methods
- Practise a solo from the defined classical ballet repertoire
- Analyse the context of the chosen solopiece
- Display variations and repertoire of complexity and technical articulation
- Convey a high level of spatial awareness appropriate to solo work
- Accomplish solo work with a developing sense of musical individuality and expression
- Present variations and repertoire with a high level of artistry and assurance acrossballet styles and genres
- Reveal increasing levels of muscularity, strength and stamina across the ballet vocabulary (male only)
- Exhibit accomplishments in male-specific vocabulary pirouettes, batterie and grand allegro as required
- Apply technique in performances
- Undertake preparations appropriate to performance contexts
- Ensure that personal presentation is appropriate to performance contexts
- Prepare for competitions and auditions as required
- Apply performance psychology techniques to preparations
- Rehearse solo dance sequences to be performed
- Sustain focus and concentration to produce solo performances that show well-developed understanding of, and sensitivity to, rhythm and musicality
- Convey choreographic intent of dance through expression and precise execution of ballet dance techniques
- Contribute to debriefing sessions to evaluate the quality of performances and to discuss ways of improving individual technique
- Maintain expertise
- Apply professional work ethic to all practice and performance activities
- Incorporate injury-prevention techniques into all dance and movement activities
- Use feedback from teachers and mentors to identify and develop ways to improve own ballet dance technique as well as group work
- Regularly view performances by industry practitioners as a way of sourcing new ideas and trends, maintaining motivation, and improving own technique