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Belly Dance Studies
UNIVERSITY SENAC University Center MAJOR Visual Communication Design CERTIFICATE Bachelor's Degree YEARS 2006-2009 MY WORK AT THIS PROJECT Illustrator Researcher TEAM Isaura da Cunha Seppi (supervisor) COPYRIGHT CC: Atribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivs REFERENCESABDOUNUR, O. J. Matemática e música: pensamento matemático na construção de significados, São Paulo:
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The Belly Dance Studies were the theme for my Bachelor's Degree final term project. I wanted my final project to be amazing, to explore the unusual and to delight me all the way through it (one whole year devoted to one single project...It should be AWESOME!). I wanted to understand the essence behind this beautiful middle-eastern art and to be able to translate it into graphic elements.
First draftsWhen I chose the theme I was inspired by it and began to explore some techniques. I like to share this early drafts because they reflect just how far from the main goal I was. Even though they might seem as beautiful figures they do not express the movements and their meanings.
The strenght of the linesMy research brought me to study music and movement in a way I never realised was possible. I tried to keep expressing myself all through the year, so while I was learning more and more about music structure, movement theory and belly dance history, I kept on trying to translate all this newfound meanings into graphic elements. At this point, I was obsessed with the dancers shapes (which I somehow translated into the strength of the dancers body shapes) and the hardness of the drums. The result, as you may see, may seem somehow fluid, but too heavy.
It has always been easier for me to work in black and white. Although I new that, someway along the road I'd have to come back to the colours, this intermediate study was black and white on purpose. As I mentioned before, I was obsessed with shapes and I needed to see and to feel where the body was while it was dancing.
The resultsWhen I became more secure about the concepts I had to translate, it all came to life. There's a direct relation between the qualities of the music and the qualities of the dancer's movements. Hard and deep drums are translated into the dancers body as stiff and deep hip shakes. The light and cheerful cymbal sounds are translated into wavy and jolly movements. The beauty of belly dance is that hardness and lightness combine perfectly the melodies and the dancer share this combined emotions with her audience. My job then was to translate hardness into more cold colours and heavy strokes while the lightness would be translated into warm colours and freely gestured strokes.
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