Choreography Structure

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 nostalgic section and try to portray a recollection of memories. The pace then changes and here we hope to embody a negative memory. The music continues to build and in this following section we plan to include mirroring - a technique we explored in class a few weeks back, having a team A and team B, one being normal and the other being split, this will hopefully link back to the mental health disorder DID. There is then a passing moment of trill, giving a ‘calm before the storm’ feel,  before there is a dramatic change in the tune and to highlight this we will incorporate bigger and more sharp movements into the choreography which will give the impression of a fight (against our emotions). Next comes the realisation, the seek for help, a battle against your inner self and finally in the last two sections our aim is to take the audience back to reality but make it clear that the emotions and the battle against them still remains with us.

To expand on DID, it is a disorder where people feel uncertain about their identity and have doubts about who they themselves really are. Sometimes they may feel a presence of a different identity, with different names voices, histories and mannerisms (Dissociative disorders, 2020).

From the beginning, we as a group really liked the concept of imitating the brain through our movements. For the section I will be choreographing with Gabby and Portia, which starts off with a dramatic change to the dynamics of the music, so far we think we will include some form of large movement to highlight this change to the audience more clearly. Another potential idea for our section was to create a moment of split focus, having someone in the centre doing multiple pirouettes, creating a whirlwind effect whilst the rest of the group rebound out from the person turning, hopefully representing a feeling of overwhelm to the audience.

Bibliography:

Myers, T., 2017. Tokio Myers - Bloodstream (Audio). [video] Available at: <https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ttcKgRNCMBo> [Accessed 14 October 2020].

nhs.uk. 2020. Dissociative Disorders. [online] Available at: <https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/dissociative-disorders/> [Accessed 29 November 2020].