This study is about the relation between four teenagers in a Stockholm suburb and contemporary dance after several meetings with the genre in practice. The main idea is to understand their comprehension and thoughts about the activity to achive guidelines to develop teaching methods in contemporary dance. The study is based on the socio-cultural perspective and focuses on the influences from the surrounding areas and different social context. The starting point of the research is: How can we make contemporary dance attractive to beginners or dancers in other styles like hip hop? The study is based on practical dance classes and interviews and gives proposals for communication for teachers to cooperate with the pupils and invite them to participate in the creation of the class with the aim to make the dance more meaningful for them. In interviews the groupmembers tell me they like dancing because of the joy, challenge, selfexpression and the social contact. If teachers in contemporary dance adapt this into their way of teaching perhaps the contemporary feild will broaden into wider social contexts.