The aim of the study was to describe and analyze what aspects of musical learning that constitute the process of developing a collective artistic life story among twenty amateur dancers over 65 years old. In earlier studies it was established that organized aesthetic communication offered participants to develop physically, emotionally and existentially. Based on these results regarding participation in dance workshops for elderly people, the current study focuses musical learning and further development during one year towards a performance on stage. The aim of the study is to describe how the musical learning proceeds throughout the project, where a series of workshops, consisting of training, choreography and improvisation, leads towards a common performance built on the participants’ life stories. The study takes Heidegger’s existential phenomenology as a starting-point. Hence, it can be stated that the participants and the choreographer dwell and learn together in musical situations, where music is discovered and expressed at the same time. Dwelling took place in workshops, rehearsals and performances, which were observed and video recorded regularly from May 2017 to May 2018. A sample of the participants was also interviewed. Generated material was analyzsed from a hermeneutic phenomenological perspective. The results imply that the elderly people become themselves through movement in the different musical rooms. Crucial factors seem to be how they get to use themselves, each other, their bodies, their stories, their personal artistic forms of expressions, and their imaginations, in interplay with music. Not least the atmosphere of playful seriousness, which is set and recreated throughout the year, can be stated as important for meaningful musical dwelling and a prerequisite for becoming among the elderly participants.