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This editorial serves as both introductory chapter and editorial summary of the journal. Dey and Sarco-Thomas start by teasing out the use of the words Contact ( and) Improvisation. They explore the notion of an experimental dance practice that works with both core principals of touch and exchange of weight and constant changing notions of unknowing, gaps, potentiality that defines itself in the moment of dancing, In this way, Dey argues that Contact and its improvisation can offer a political praxis, an insertion of 'change through exchange' which offers moving bodies many kinds of rides. They summarise the rich and international articles within the journal into themes:' the notion of 'threeness' in CI; CI principles as explored through performance-making and creative work; the ethics of relating through touch in improvisation; and the temporal dynamics of CI practice in teaching and training. This is the first curated collection of scholarly articles on the subject.