Eleanor’s BTUK Assessment Blog

For our choreography we have chosen the song Bloodstream by Tokio Myers  (Myers, 2017).   After listening to it a few times, as a class we sectioned it into 12 parts to mark either a change of tempo or the style of the music. We also briefly outlined what would happen at each of these points.                            (Here's a photo of the sections we divided the song into from our class)  Our current structure for the piece consists of us all standing in a cluster, moving together as one for around the first 20 seconds, from there we split off one by one, moving in a way that reflects our designated emotion. Our thought process behind starting in a group together was wanting to mimic the brain from our stimulus, and us breaking off individually, with our varying emotions, symbolises the emojis stringing out from the brain. After this, at roughly the 50 second mark, we will transfer to a more nostalgi...

 Before reaching our final stimulus, we were presented with multiple choices from which we had to choose our favourite and then stand behind it.  Our chosen stimulus comprises of a picture of a human brain with emojis displaying an array of emotions strung out from it, to me it conveyed a sense of overwhelm, that the brain can only take so much before emotions have to be released. Some of the other ideas that were discussed included the concept that technology is used to express feelings, that everyone is the same but unique, a representation of the human brain being overworked and how social media can try to fit everyone into the same "social norm". The message we will be trying to portray through our choreography will be centred on mental health and a some of the aspects surrounding the topic. We, as a group, chose mental health as our key idea. The process we went through to come to this conclusion consisted of us looking at the stimulus, collecting our thoughts together a...