The national organizing committee decided against it because sexuality is not a focus of Contact Improv. The characteristic feature is close, unrestricted contact through touch between the dancers. The dance plays with gravity and conversations with each other's bodies. Today there are Contact Improv groups all over America and the world. The weekly jams in Portland are pretty free form.
Dancers come into the studio, stretch to warm up, and then initiate movement when they feel like.
They may contact another dancer through touch to begin a duet that can then evolve into a dance with three or more people, all of whom are touching, maintaining a point of contact in one way or another. Maintaining a point of contact with your partner and moving from that point of contact is one. Watching experienced dancers performing, it's hard to believe they're not levitating. They throw themselves across the room and at each other in highly adrenalized movements. Van Tine comes from a ballet and modern dance background, but many of the participants at the weekly jams do not have any formal dance training.