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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Confirm links with own heritage or Indigenous Australian traditions
   • Collect information on features of family, culture and knowledge of own language, region or country from identified holders and custodians of information
   • Approach community members and custodians or Elders in culturally appropriate ways showing respect for local Indigenous culture and customs
   • Determine own Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander identity and ways in which culture and family may inform performing arts practice
   • Identify past and present roles of individuals, families and communities or societies in performing arts practice
   • Record cultural beliefs and values related to artistic performance, including cultural significance, economic significance and nature of performing arts in the community
   • Develop and record, in consultation with Elders, custodians and mentors, a connection to cultural tradition and current practice
   • Identify ways to recognise whether cultural maintenance is being observed in professional performances of Australian Indigenous dance
2. Negotiate the terms of relationships with mentors
   • Determine benefits of, and need for, a mentoring plan between mentor and mentee
   • Negotiate timeframes and outcomes for each party and rules of interaction for the mentoring program
   • Agree on reporting methods or reporting technology and report agreed criteria for the mentoring relationship
   • Evaluate and report mentoring program against agreed outcomes
3. Maintain professional relationships
   • Communicate in culturally appropriate ways that show respect for local Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture and customs
   • Behave consistently with respect for mentors, those in cultural authority and those with expertise
   • Perform dance movements and activities that appropriately express cultural context according to cultural, copyright and intellectual property requirements
   • Adhere to cultural, professional and performance direction from mentors or cultural custodians
   • Respond to opportunities to enhance cultural and technical skills and knowledge

Range Statement

This section specifies different work environments and conditions that may affect performance. Essential operating conditions that may be present (depending on the work situation, needs of the candidate, accessibility of the item, and local industry and regional contexts) are included.

Cultural maintenance must include:	protection and continuation of: natural and cultural integrity stories song lines spiritual practices artefacts sites of significance language responsibilities and obligations to individuals, country and the community authentic replication of approved: cultural stories dance music to demonstrate culture outside the community environment.
Mentoring plan must include:	agreed reporting methods or reporting technology agreed timeframes monitoring and review strategies objectives purpose rights and responsibilities of each party cultural, personal and professional roles of each party.

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Performance Evidence

Evidence of the ability to:

develop understanding of own and a community’s cultural history and identity

develop a mentor relationship with an Indigenous Australian Elder or custodian of knowledge

negotiate, record and evaluate a mentoring plan

maintain cultural protocols and effective communication strategies in interactions with mentors

apply knowledge of cultural maintenance of performing arts practice in an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander context.

Note: If a specific volume or frequency is not stated, then evidence must be provided for each of the above points at least once.

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Knowledge Evidence

To complete the unit requirements the individual must:

demonstrate knowledge of the context and structure of cultural systems, including the role of dance, story-telling, music and body painting as expressions of cultural systems

demonstrate well-developed knowledge of the following aspects of contemporary Indigenous Australian cultures, including:

cultural diversity: cultural groupings, skin, country and language groups

family structures, kinship, women’s roles, and men’s roles

relationship to land and customs

racism and discrimination

issues that may affect an individual’s cultural identity

values

traditional law and economy

describe the history and role of the arts in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures

describe how the following issues affect work practices in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander performing arts sector:

commercialisation of cultural material

tourism

intellectual property

protocols relating to moral rights, intellectual property and copyright in the physical expression of cultural material

explain how cultural maintenance can be maximised in the choreographing and performance of dance for multicultural expression.

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