STANDARD 1.3 (ELEMENTS AND PRINCIPLES) Grade Twelve

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 theatrical production concept.
4. Explain the basic physical physical and chemicalproperties inherent in components of technical theater such as light, color, pigment, scenic construction, costumes, electricity, paint, 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.