In the following essay examines the notions of 'ill' and 'well' based on the knowledge of persons whowith chronic illness, persons who dances and persons who do both. The concern of this project is toshed light on how normative and hegemonic structures affect the bodies of those who are living withchronic psycho-somatic illness. And the responsiveness of such bodies. More specifically it is dealingwith invisible illness and how language is shaping the understanding of these bodies. It is written in thecontext of contemporary dance and from the experience of dancers, artists and thinkers living withinvisible chronic illness. It investigates the performativity of illness from the knowledge of personsliving with such diseases as well as through cultural tropes and myths of Western societies. It builds onconcepts such as crip time as described by disability scholars Ellen Samuels and Alison Kafer, andinscribes the concept into the framework of the project. The investigations are taking place throughfeminist practices, aiming at practicing the same ideas as it is depicting and to develop strategies. Acs isbuilding on stories from her own experience as well as colleagues. The writing depicts the trajectory ofthe dance research that aim to develop a dance practice based on listening in to the body, the group andthe music. It is investigating dance steps as tropes: forms for dancing to occur and poetics to arise