The aim of this study is to describe contact improvisation as a practice that creates meaning, with focus on the participants' acts of communication. In addition, I want to develop my role as a dance teacher. I have started from an ethnographic approach to answer questions about contact improvisation in relation to organisation, characteristics and experience of communicative acts. Empirical material was collected through field notes from participant observation and interviews with practitioners of contact improvisation. The result is that contact improvisation organizes through jam, which is parted in two: an introduction guided by leaders and a free jam, created by the participants. Non-verbal communication, contact and also exploration of and through movements is characteristics for the dance form. Contact is the primary communicative action and is twofold. It is partly the social contact and networking around contact improvisation but also the physical touch within the dance where the communication is mediated. From a dance pedagogical perspective, the study has provided me with ways to work with contact improvisation and given me a deeper understanding for the dance form as being nonhierarchical. Contact improvisation can be adjusted according to its practitioners and be used for teaching students or all levels.