Dance is equal to love if experienced with those who understand you, feel for you and whom you can trust.

Modern research into intelligence accentuates the role of self-awareness and empathy. Gardner calls it intrapersonal or interpersonal intelligence. Considering the importance of personal intelligence in both professional and private life, he poses the question if this should not be superior to all other forms of intelligence as the more extensive form, new in essence; as the form pre-determined to eventually take control over intelligences of lower levels.

Mgr. Art Jan Gonscaks assessment of contact improvisation and dancing with a partner is the following: This is a very good way of learning more about ourselves and others. Communication here is very direct, physical. From the dialogue of two bodies - contact, you get more information than from verbal dialogues. The physical reality with its weight, touch, intensity of acceptance or refusal, cooperation or fight will not leave your questions unanswered.

Since contact improvisation on a higher level is relatively demanding, the training must include preparatory exercises allowing one to understand the substantial principles of contact improvisation. Gradually, this approach will lead the body to more liberty and openness; the body experience will become more and more diverse (confidence in ourselves and in the partners abilities will grow).

Contact improvisation has sprung from the Eastern philosophies, hence individual perception and and plays with the coincidental stream of various forms are substantial to it. There is no prescribed form, so it is very much open to new stimuli. Through contact you enter a world of creative empty space where unexpected experiences are born. If you open your mind and body to this kind of dance, it will bring you more than physical efficiency, proficiency, strength, adroitness or acrobatic skill. It will teach you something deeper and more essential.