CUADAN615 — Perform pas de deux at a professional level
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What an assessment for CUADAN615 must cover
50 assessable components: 4 elements (22 performance criteria), 12 performance evidence and 6 knowledge evidence requirements, plus 10 foundation skills. An audit-defensible tool maps every question and task back to these — that mapping is the coverage matrix Auditori generates alongside the assessment.
Elements & performance criteria
1 Prepare for pas de deux with partner
- 1.1Research and analyse chosen pas de deux work
- 1.2Develop rapport with partner during rehearsal process and seamlessly adjust to a change of partner when required
- 1.3Practise timing and weight centring in accomplishing adage, pirouettes, promenades and lifts with partner
- 1.4Rehearse complex lifts and counterbalances with grace, balance and control
- 1.5Exhibit adaptability in incorporating unseen combinations across different teaching methods
- 1.6Demonstrate through ongoing technical strength, diversity and refinement, evidence of advanced self-correction, safe dance practices and concentrated response to feedback
- 1.7Identify and display technical requirements of pas de deux
2 Prepare for and apply technique in professional level performances
- 2.1Rehearse performances until perfected following safe dance practices
- 2.2Undertake mental and physical preparations required for performance context
- 2.3Confirm personal presentation is suitable for performance context
- 2.4Convey the story, mood and choreographic intent of dances using artistry, rhythm, musicality and focus when completing ballet dance techniques
3 Execute pas de deux in professional level performances
- 3.1Demonstrate complex performance attributes and quality of movement following safe dance practices
- 3.2Show strength, precision and complexity in all aspects of footwork
- 3.3Provide support when female dancer needs to leave a balance, or needs to be steadied (male only)
- 3.4In supported pirouettes or finger turns, judge number of turns required, matching it to partner, and phrase the choreography with the music
- 3.5Apply flexibility, sense of line and clear positions essential for form
- 3.6Apply partnering techniques to the style and intention of pas de deux repertoire across ballet styles and genres
4 Develop professional practice
- 4.1Evaluate quality of performances and discuss ways of improving individual or ensemble technique during debriefing sessions
- 4.2Identify and implement strategies to refine professional work ethic
- 4.3Develop realistic parameters for extending scope of performance practice, in consultation with required personnel
- 4.4Identify and apply regimes and artistic strategies for refining own performance technique
- 4.5Incorporate ballet and stage terminology into discussions, and practice and performance activities
Performance evidence
- perform pas de deux repertoire at a professional level in at least three different performances, at least one of which must be in a classical ballet style, and at least one of which must be in a contemporary ballet style.
- demonstrate the following advanced partnering skills at a professional level: travelling steps, supported adagio, pirouettes, lifts
- synchronise movement in a duo situation
- demonstrate pointe work in footwork
- work effectively and with confidence with a partner
- apply professional practice
- emulate style and intention of pas de deux repertoire through partnering techniques
- employ physical control throughout performances
- demonstrate timing and weight centring techniques with partner, applying them to lifts and counterbalances
- demonstrate high level of spatial awareness in partnering, including floor patterns and aerial pathways
- show professional level of consistency from one performance to the next
- use ballet and stage terminology.
Knowledge evidence
- principles relating to physical movements and ballet technique, including: extending, folding, relationship with gravity, rotating, shifting weight, spatial awareness, successional movement, use of breath, balance
- principles of safe dance practice and injury prevention, including those relating to: spine articulation, foot engagement, bases of support, including feet, legs, hands, arms and torso, joint range of motion, differentiation of legs and pelvis, posture and alignment
- strategies to develop professional practice
- ballet terminology required to demonstrate the performance evidence
- fundamental technical principles in classical and contemporary ballet as they relate to pas de deux
- pas de deux repertoire and performances.
Foundation skills
- Learning: Identifies opportunities to develop performance by analysing feedback and reflecting on own performance
- Learning: Identifies opportunities to extend professional development
- Oral communication: Obtains information by listening and questioning
- Oral communication: Discusses ideas and solutions
- Reading: Interprets information about repertoire to be performed
- Self-management: Follows accepted industry practices in relation to safe dance practices and general work ethic
- Self-management: Works independently and collectively within broad parameters, with a strong sense of responsibility for goals, decisions and outcomes
- Self-management: Recognises and responds to rehearsal and performance protocols
- Teamwork: Collaborates with dance partners for pas de deux performances and rehearsals
- Teamwork: Adapts to needs of partner
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What does an assessment tool for CUADAN615 need to cover?
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