STANDARD 1.3 (ELEMENTS AND PRINCIPLES) ALL STUDENTS WILL DEMONSTRATE AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE ELEMENTS AND PRINCIPLES OF DANCE, MUSIC, THEATER, AND VISUAL ART.

 

Descriptive Statement:  In order to understand the visual and performing arts, students must discover the elements and principles both unique and common to dance, music, theater, and the visual arts.  The elements, such as color, line, shape, form and rhythm, time, space and energy, are the basis for the creation of works of art.  An understanding of these elements and practice of the principles ensure the strengthening of interdisciplinary relationships with all content area curricula and their applications in daily life.   

 

Cumulative Progress Indicators

 

Building upon knowledge and skills gained in preceding grades, by the end of Grade 12, students will:

 

A.   Dance

1.    Categorize the elements, principles, and choreographic structure of specific dance masterworks.

2.    Articulate understanding of choreographic structures or forms such as palindrome, theme and variation, rondo, retrograde, inversion, narrative, and accumulation.

3.    Analyze issues of ethnicity, gender, social/economic status, age, and physical conditioning in relation to dance.

 

AND/OR

 

B.   Music

1.    Evaluate a diversity of musical works to discern similarities and differences in how the elements of music have been utilized.

2.    Synthesize knowledge of the elements of music.

3.    Identify how the elements of music are utilized in a variety of careers.

 

AND/OR

 

C.   Theater

1.    Describe the process of character analysis and identify physical, emotional, and social dimensions of characters from dramatic texts.

2.    Analyze the structural components of plays from a variety of social, historical and political contexts.

3.    Interpret a script to develop a production concept.

4.    Explain the basic physical properties inherent in components of technical theater such as light, color, pigment, scenic construction, costumes, and makeup.  

 

AND/OR

 

D.   Visual Art

1.    Compare and contrast innovative applications of the elements of art and principles of design.

2.    Analyze how a literary, musical, theatrical and/or dance composition can provide inspiration for a work of art.

 

 

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