Design methodologies for gesture- and movement-based interaction take divergent perspectives, either quantifying movement from an ex-ternal point of view or supporting inner sensation exploration and description. However, professional movers, like dancers, define poses and phrases using both descriptions from choreographers and personal, bodily cues. I argue that dance style transitions offer researchers insights into dancers’ experiences questioning and balancing the externally codified and internally not-possible-to-be-codified parts of their training. After employing qualitative methods, I present the challenges and strategies of the dance style transition and discuss how structu-ring technology around movement substrates could support t...