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| COLOR: | Visual sensation dependent on the reflection or absorption of light from a surface. An element of art with three properties: (1) hue, the color name, e.g., red, yellow, blue; (2) intensity, the brightness and purity of a color, e.g., bright red or dull red; and (3) value, the lightness or darkness of a color. |
| FORM: | An object that is three-dimensional, real or implied, having height, width, and depth. Cubes, spheres, pyramids, and cylinders are examples. |
| LINE: | The continuous mark, visual or implied, made by a moving point. It may be two-dimensional (pencil on paper), three dimensional (wire), or implied (the edge of a shape or form). Line may vary in length, direction, texture, width, curvature, and color. |
| SHAPE: | A two-dimensional area defined by a closed line, real or implied, which can be freeform or geometric, both manmade and natural; an area clearly set off by one or more of the other elements, such as color, value, line, and texture. Shape has area, but no volume. |
| TEXTURE: | The way a surface feels to the sense of touch (tactile) or how it has been implied to the sense of sight (visual). |
| VALUE | Light and dark areas. Value depends on how much light a surface reflects. |
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| SCRIPT: | Written material containing character dialogue, setting, and movement for actors. |
| ACTING: | The art/skill of portraying a character. |
| STAGECRAFT: | The art of creating all the elements of a production, such as sets, properties, etc. |
| DIRECTING: | The art of guiding the production and actors in their characterization. |
| IMPROVISATION: | The art of acting from impulse. |
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| DYNAMICS: | The degree of loudness in music. |
| TEMPO: | The speed of the pulse/beat of music. |
| ARTICULATION: | The manner of sounding individual pitches or phrases, the characteristics of attack, and decay of tones. |
| TONE COLOR: | The character or quality of a sound that distinguishes instruments, voices, or other sound sources. |
| BEAT/METER: | The grouping in which a succession of rhythmic pulses or beats is organized; indicated by a meter signature at the beginning of a work. |
| RHYTHM: | The occupation of sound or silence within a set period of time. |
| MELODY: | Series of pitches with a sense of completion (the tune). |
| HARMONY: | Supporting structure for a melody (chords, etc.). |
| TONALITY (major/minor): | The harmonic relationship of tones with respect to a definite center or point of rest: fundamental too much of western music from California 1600. |
| TEXTURE (Music): | The density of sound (e.g., thick or thin, combination of instruments, or voices). |
| FORM STRUCTURE (Music): | The overall structural organization of a music composition (e.g., AB, ABA, rondo, call-response, theme, variations, and sonata-allegro) and the interrelationships of music events within the overall structure. |
| STYLE BACKGROUND (Music): | The distinctive or characteristic manner in which the elements of music are treated (e.g., composers, periods, media, nations, and genre). |
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| BODY (What): | The body is the "instrument" of dance. Concepts in this area include body parts, locomotor and nonlocomotor movement, and work with partners and groups in mirroring and echoing. |
| SPACE (Where): | Space is seen in relation to the body and in relation to the surrounding space. Space includes personal space, general space, directions, levels, pathways, planes, shapes, and focus. |
| TIME (When): | Movement occurs in observable patterns of time. Time includes breath, heartbeat, pulse, tempo, meter, and phrase. |
| ENERGY/FORCE (How): | Energy involves the "quality" or substance of a movement. The use of imagery is helpful in communicating this idea. |
