Elements and Performance Criteria
- Excel at a physical conditioning program
- Continuously meet physical conditioning requirements of professional dance work
- Demonstrate ongoing stamina, strength, cardiovascular endurance and flexibility
- Minimise risk factors that inhibit the achievement of goals and seek professional assistance when required
- Always perform warm-up and cool-down activities in conjunction with dance activities
- Execute a professional level of artistry and presentation
- Refine extended ballet technique across each section of class work
- Demonstrate complex performance attributesand quality of movement in sequences of extended difficulty
- Show strength, precision and complexity in all aspects of footwork, including pointe work as required
- Execute complex variations ofballet repertoire with accuracy and precision
- Exhibit a professional level of physical learning and adaptability to incorporate unseen combinations across differentteaching methods
- Demonstrate through ongoing technical strength, diversity and refinement, evidence of advanced self-correction and concentrated response to feedback
- Demonstrate muscularity, strength and stamina in male-specific vocabularyas required
- Demonstrate advanced partnering techniques
- Demonstrate advanced ability to cooperate and show consideration for partner
- Consistently show timing and weight centring in accomplishing adage, pirouettes, promenades and lifts
- Perform complex lifts and counterbalances with grace, balance and control
- Apply the flexibility, sense of line and clear positions essential to the form
- Emulate the style and intention of pas de deux repertoire through partnering techniques
- Execute complex ballet repertoire
- Execute variations and repertoire of complexity with a high level of technical accuracy
- Convey a high level of spatial awareness appropriate to solo and group work
- Execute group work with a professional sense of cohesion and solo work with a professional sense of musical individuality
- Present variations and repertoire with a high level of artistry and assurance acrossballet styles and genres
- Perform at a professional level
- Undertake preparations appropriate to performance contexts
- Ensure that personal presentation is appropriate to performance contexts
- Apply performance psychology techniques to preparations
- Rehearse performances repeatedly until perfected
- Sustain focus and concentration to produce performances that show artistry, rhythm and musicality and convey the story and mood of the dance
- Convey choreographic intent of dances through confident and precise execution of ballet dance techniques
- Contribute to debriefing sessions to evaluate the quality of performances and to discuss ways of improving individual or ensemble technique
- Develop professional practice