Introduction -- Touching and Being Touched. Motion, Emotion, and Modes of Contact -- I Touch -- Rühren, Berühren, Aufruhr. Stirring, Stirring up, Uprising -- Figure, Plasticity, Affect -- Just Like That. William Forsythe - Between Movement and Language -- Movements of Touch in MAYBE FOREVER -- Cold Burn (Teion Yakedo). On Touch in Contemporary Japanese Performance -- The Fault Lines of Touching -- II Kinesthesia -- On 'Inner Touch' and the Moving Body. Aisthêsis, Kinaesthesis, and Aesthetics -- Choreographies With and Without a Choreographer. Intuitive and Intentional Corporeal Interactions -- "Listening". Kinesthetic Awareness in Contemporary Dance -- Do You Feel the Same Way Too? -- Empathy, Contagion and Affect. The Role of Kinesthesia in Watching Dance -- III Empathy -- Affective Modulations in Politics, Theory and Art -- Is the Movement of the Filmic Image a Sign of Vitality? -- Feeling In and Out. Contact Improvisation and the Politics of Empathy -- "Touch Me If You Can". The Practice of Close Embrace as a Facilitator of Kinesthetic Empathy in Argentine Tango -- Lost and Found in Interpretation. Senses and Emotions in Contexts of Argentine Tango -- Dancing Tango. The Weave of an Emotional, Corporal and Social Network -- Notes on Contributors.