189 Journal of Dance & Somatic Practices Volume 6 Number 2 © 2014 Intellect Ltd Article. English language. doi: 10.1386/jdsp.6.2.189_1 Malaika Sarco-ThoMaS Falmouth University and University of Malta touch + talk: Ecologies of questioning in contact and improvisation abSTracT This article explores the potential of the touch + talk score to act as a framework in which to articulate and open up dance practitioners’ questions underlying the prac- tice and performance of contact and improvisation. Guattari’s model of three ecolo- gies is used as a reference point from which to identify how a practice of questioning is significant to improvisational modalities in dance as well as wider practices of relating to social, mental and physical spheres of thought. I suggest that negotiat- ing contact with another through physical and verbal questioning can be a route towards articulating our emerging understanding of current improvisation practices and makes visible the ethical practice of encountering another. coMMEnT When I believe I know where down is, I am always wrong! Only gravity has that information. If I am not asking gravity for the direction of down, my idea cannot be correct. In this work knowledge can only be a question! What a relief! (Lepkoff 2008) kEywordS ecology touch + talk walk + talk transversality Levinas dialogue Guattari ethics of touch