Performance

• Physical Skills:

  • Balance
  • Posture
  • Alignment
  • Coordination
  • Control
  • Flexibility
  • Mobility
  • Strength
  • Stamina
  • Extension
  • Isolation
• Technical Skills:

  • Action Content (travel, turn, elevation, gesture, stillness, use of different body parts, floor work, transfer of weight)
  • Dynamic Content (fast/slow, sudden/sustained, acceleration/deceleration, strong/light)
  • Spatial Content (pathways, levels, directions, size of movements, patterns, spacial design)
  • Relationship content
  • Timing content
  • Rhythmic content
  • Movement in stylistically accurate way
• Expressive skills:

  • Projection
  • Focus
  • Facial Expressions
  • Spatial awareness
  • Phrasing

  For trio only

  • musicality
  • sensitivity to other dancers
  • communication of choreographic intent
• Mental Skills: (during performance)

  • movement memory
  • commitment
  • concentration
  • confidence
• Mental Skills (process):

  • systematic repetition
  • mental rehearsal
  • rehearsal discipline
  • planning of rehearsal
  • response to feedback
  • capacity to improve
• Safe working practices (during performance):

  • safe execution
  • appropriate dance wear; footwear, hairstyle, absence of jewellery
• Safe Working practicies (process):
• Safe working practices (process):

  • warming up
  • cooling down
  • nutrition
  • hydration