Tentacular Dreaming is a movement-based participatory research method. It draws upon collective conscious dreaming practices as well as contemporary neuroscience, linking the ability to dream with the capacity for empathy. Using a modular set of somatic tasks and guidelines, the method applies dreaming principles to collective embodied experiences, setting the stage for letting go of patterns and for rehearsing alternative narratives for more response-able futures.

During their two-week residency at Tanzhaus Zürich, Maja Renn, Zaumne and collaborators will make themselves into vibrating and permeable bodies, knowing-body compasses with fluid identities, tentacular bodies with panoramic visions – capable of adopting multiple perspectives at once. Through the playful and performative process they enter symbiotic entanglements and inhabit ever-changing dream landscapes.

The work-in-progress Sharing will be followed by a brief audience discussion.