performance skills

• Movement memory


  Rehearsing something so much you know it without having to really think about it (your body is used to it)
• Commitment


  Commitment to a movement
• Concentration


  Focusing during a dance
• Confidence


  Being/looking confident when dancing
• Systematic repetition


  Repeating a piece until it is correct or you know it.
• Mental rehearsal


  Going through and visualising the dance in your head
• Rehearsal discipline


  Your behaviour, mindset and focus in a rehearsal
• Planning of rehearsal


  Knowing when and how often you will be rehearsing and having a clear plan of what you need to do
• Response to feedback


  Taking on any feedback, taking direction and improving your work
• Capacity to improve


  How you decide to improve (and what you do)
• Action content


  eg: travel, turn, elevation, gesture, stillness, use of different body parts, floor work, transfer of weight
• Dynamic Content


  eg: fast/slow, sudden/sustained, accelerated/deccelerated, strong/light, direct/indirect, flowing/abrupt
• Spatial content


  eg: pathways, levels, size of movements, patterns, spatial designs
• Relationship content (duets/trio's only)


  eg: lead/follow, mirror, action/reaction, accumulation, complement/contrast, counterpoint, contact, formations
• Timing content


  counts, synchronised ect.
• Rhythmic content


  repeated patterns of sound or movement
• Style


  doing a movement in the correct style (like no popping or locking in ballet)