Choreography Structure

(Myers, 2017)

The structure of our piece begins in a group, representing the brain in the original stimulus. We then move out one by one each dancing to portray a different emotion and to constitute for the emojis shooting out. This shows the brain's confusion as there is too many things going on, correlating with the music as the texture gets thicker and creates an interesting tension. We then change into a nostalgic memory and a small group of people will represent a meaningful, joyous memory, using freedom to really emphasise their feelings, and positivity’s of the past. Meanwhile the rest of the group are in split focus doing floor work to intensify the difference in the split stage, so you can really see who's who , whilst portraying their emotions.

Contrasting to this we twist into a bad memory when the music gets slightly more distressing and upbeat. A group will highlight negativities and use body language to represent the distressing thoughts. The section after this introduces a gradual build-up where we split into two teams and show the brain preparing to fight against itself to link back to our original theme of mental health, and Dissociative identity disorder (DID). During this we mirror each other using the same movements just in different dynamics to make a point of the two personalities conflicting.

There is then a trill in the music where we do a small combination of steps to anticipate the next big change which is the fight, where the personalities collide, and dance mostly in unison, the music really strikes us here and we will use more powerful movements to stress the music dynamics, and tempo through dance. Here we are thinking about doing some really big jumps and even punch motions to emphasise the immense dynamics. There is then a short realisation section, where the brain notices the terrible behaviour, and stresses about what it’s done wrong. Once we realise, the pace picks up again and there is a sense of urgency as we are searching for a treatment for our DID. The music changes and feels crazy, we all move in unison to illustrate that it never leaves us, and we have to hide it instead of helping it. We come together, then block out the split and constant distance from our own body. The song then begins to fade back into the beginning, then as a group we repeat the start to conclude, a day in the life of someone with DID.

As a group we listened through the music and chose time slots with significant change and gave each slot a meaning choreographically and then designated a few people to choreograph each section.

This is a link to the music we have chosen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzgFohAu1W4

Bibliography 

Myers, T., 2017. Tokio Myers, Album Cover- Our Generation. [image] Available at: <https://www.google.com/search?q=tokio+myers+album+cover> [Accessed 2 December 2020].