Tune-In Tune-Out
Title: Tune In, Tune Out: A Collaborative Exploration of Choreographing Movement
In Tune In, Tune Out, the focus wasn’t on perfecting choreography, but on exploring a unique creative process itself, specifically, how movement can emerge from imagery brought explored through experience and collaborative dialogue. This work leaned into somatic imagery as a foundational tool for generating and shaping movement. Rather than beginning with steps or structure, we began with sensation, metaphor, and feeling.
The process involved conversations around imagery, evocative, tactile sensations that helped guide the dancers’ internal experience and external expression. For instance, we explored what it might feel like to run your fingers through wet sand. Inducing a sensation of a soft resistance, cool granules, and the slow, intentional drag of motion. Other images invited the body into a state of responsiveness, such as swaying gently like a flower in the wind or embodying the tension of a rope pulled taut, just before the moment it might snap.
These images weren’t just creative prompts, they were shared reference points that allowed dancers to connect on an intuitive level. The collaboration wasn’t about imitating the image exactly but interpreting it through personal physical response. In this way, somatic imagery became the language of collaboration, allowing movement to surface from within, rather than being imposed from the outside.
You can watch a video of the piece at the link below.
Performance was held on April 30th, 2025 at the Margaret Gisolo Theater on ASU Tempe Campus. The 3 dancers who performed the piece were all ASU students: Grace Hague, Alyssa Alarcon, and Emma Cafarella. Music used for the piece is titled Lying In the Grass by artisit Virtuexii.
