Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. While many improv shows aim to produce a spontaneous play or mimic stage or screen ...

Playing for Keeps: Improvisation in the Aftermath is an exploration of the various ways that musical improvisation can be used as a method for responding to crisis and dealing with trauma and stress.

Music composition and improvisation represent two intertwined yet distinct expressions of creative musical practice. Whereas composition often involves the deliberate crafting of musical structures ...

Magnet Theater presents The (Virtual) New York Musical Improv Festival from July 14-18, 2020 on their virtual stage at twitch.tv/themagnettheater/. Tickets are available for purchase to help keep the ...

Ajay Heble receives funding from The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and the Office of the Vice-President (Research) at the University of Guelph. IF 2020 received funding from the ...

Pianist Holly Bowling and Guitarist Tom Hamilton are known for conversing on stages throughout the country through their instruments, creating an intimate improvisation each and every show. Tom ...

dfischli@uoguelph.ca has received funding from SSHRC. He is affiliated with Silence, a community artspace and not-for-profit. Laura Risk receives or has received funding from SSHRC, FRQSC and the ...

An international research team investigated the brains of 16 jazz pianists while they played a piece from memory, improvised based on the melody, and freely improvised based on the chord changes. The ...

Jazz artist Louis Armstrong once said, "never play a thing the same way twice." Although musical improvisation—composing new passages on the spot—is not unique to jazz, it's perhaps the genre's most ...