Eleanor’s BTUK Assessment Blog

Café Müller is another piece by Pina Bausch that sparked some inspiration for the choreography. Similar to when I critically reviewed another piece of Bausch's, The Rite of Spring, upon first watching I was unsure of what the meaning or stimulus behind it was, I could see that the piece appeared to be set in some kind of café, in which there was a woman who seems to be potentially mentally ill due to all of her jerking and repetitious movements, this relates back to our own choreography as the aim of ours was to raise awareness of all the mental health illnesses out there that so many deal with on a daily basis. A little later on in the piece, a few other people enter the stage going about their life but also with frequent moments of peculiarity too. Café Müller features lots of repetition and jolty movements which perhaps could be interpreted as a way of exemplifying mental illnesses.  In terms of the music, it's very regular for the most part, this is reflected through the mo...

 To conclude my blog posts on the procedure behind the creation of our choreography piece, I’m going to give a brief evaluation.  Overall I feel that the stimulus and message of the piece did come through clearly in our choreography however with regards to the message, maybe not quite to the extent I think it potentially could have, however due to this being our first proper attempt at choreographing a piece I think it was a really good effort from us all. There are moments where I think the stimulus is really clear, Taylor and Portia's section at the beginning of the piece in particular. This is because we really bring to life the brain with all of the emojis stemming out from it through us each leaving the clump formation one by one, each embodying our designated emotion. At this point I feel we represented the stimulus very effectively, another moment that I think this is in Gabby's section when we are, yet again, in a clump arrangement creating movements that resemble the ...