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Jessica Lovick-Earle

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Year 11

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Explanation of Stimulus Idea:

My stimulus is a painting called ‘The weeping Woman’ by Pablo Picasso& we decided to focus on the emotional and historical basis of the painting. It symbolized the grief and suffering of the ones who stay behind in wars waiting for their loved ones to return, so we decided to focus on these feeling and the emotions behind them.

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Motifs: Our first motif (fig. one) was based on the suffering within the painting, we start reaching out and then pulling our arms into our chest to show we are desperately wanting our loved ones back with our bodies hunched over and our hands clasped to our chest, we move our bodies up and down to show heavy breathing and our heartache. We then move forward in the same motion to show the upset and suffering within the painting, this signifies my stimulus because we show the desperate expression on her face as if she had been waiting for eternity for her loved one to return. We then do a pivot turn towards the each other using our inside leg to pivot round on tilting the way we are turning with our inside hand across our face as if we were wiping away tears or hiding our grief. We then do a balance, leaning away from each other with Stephs right arm reaching outwards and my left arm hanging down.

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Choreographic Devices: We used the development of our movements to show the emotions that are conveyed in the painting, and to show how jumbled cubism is in the way a painter analyzes his object and paints it through different perspectives so we tried to develop it as if we were showing the movements in a different light. We did this by using Mearce Cunningham’s use of chance in a motif to show the way the painting is split up and then forced back together to create a completely different image compared to the original one. We perform the last balance ...

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