The results can be savory or sweet, depending on your palate.

Contact-improv is a form in which dancers, using unfamiliar or improvisational music, create spur-of-the-moment movements in collaboration with other dancers. What seems simple on the surface takes a great deal of concentration and a willingness to work with others — even if your idea gets subdued in the process of making a grand gesture as a group.

The contact-improv work by Amber Ortega-Perez, Kristina Kuest and Laura Vriend showed how trial and error, repetition and a great deal of concentration are necessary in the dance-making process.

The evening was broken into four short segments. There was an introduction where the dancers interacted with accomplished guitarist Rudi Harst. A second section, titled "Adjective/Adverb/Simile," used words written by audience members on folded pieces of paper prior to the performance to spur the dance/music action.

"Journey" was the third piece, and this, too, required audience members to come up with an imaginative beginning place and an emotion (in this case: frustrated and behind the gate), a middle place/emotion (McDonalds in New York City and giddy) and an ending location (a Japanese toy store, while rushed and confused). The final section was called "Round Robin." This portion allowed two of the dancers to interact with one another while a third danced alone, each trading off to create new partnerships.

The most successful moments in the show occurred during the second and third pieces, assisted by audience suggestions, some of which were hilarious. Kuest and Ortega-Perez were comfortable with initiating dance moments that erupted across the stage, while Vriend provided a deep contrast not just in style but approach. Her timidity toward movement and her use of repetition and touch were an asset in this situation.

On the whole, the evening provided many memorable music and dance moments.

"W-I-P" will resume in September at Jump-Start Theater. Call (210) 212-7775 for more information.