TONAL SHIFTS

Tonal Shifts
Six embodied improvisations on gender fluidity

A somatic inquiry into gender fluidity through six improvisations that explore tension, physical tone, directional movement, gravity, and suspension as tools of self-definition.

Tonicity and succession operate in parallel — not as abstract concepts, but as deeply embodied processes. They mark the unfolding of gender transition not merely as social discourse, but as an internal, hormonal, and kinetic inscription on the body.

The work approaches the body as formable matter — a field that negotiates identity through its very physical structure: tone, direction, lift, and weight. It proposes that the fluidity of gender is not a constructed fiction, but a deeply organic potential already embedded in the body’s behavior.

Masculinity is treated not as a fixed aesthetic but as a somatic condition — a tension, a density, a direction — experienced within bodies that hold multiple or interwoven identities. Succession reflects the temporality of transformation, where every shift is archived through movement, breath, and resonance.

Rather than staging gender as representation, Tonal Shifts inhabits it — as process, as memory, as movement. It frames the trans and intersex body not as deviation, but as a central and fertile site of form-making.

Duration: 30 minutes
Suitable for: Ages 18 and over