The improvisation studies reader: spontaneous acts

Improvisation is a performance practice that animates and activates diverse energies of inspiration, critique, and invention. In recent years it has coalesced into an exciting and innovative new field of interdisciplinary scholarly inquiry, becoming a cornerstone of both practical and theoretical approaches to performance. The Improvisation Studies Reader draws together the works of key artists and thinkers from a range of disciplines, including theatre, music, literature, film, and dance. Divided by keywords into eight sections, this book bridges the gaps between these fields.

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; Permissions; Prologue: Spontaneous Acts; Part 1 Listening; 1 Improvised Listening: Opening Statements Listening to the Lambs; 2 On Listening; 3 Improvisation; 4 Going Fragile; 5 Music, Language, and Cultural Styles: Improvisation as Conversation; 6 Deep Listening Meditations: Egypt (1999); 7 ""Really Listening"": Original art, 30 x 44"", made live @ World Percussion Summit September 3, 2013; Part 2 Trust/Risk; 8 Improvised Trust: Opening Statements; 9 Improvisation.

10 Afterthoughts11 Thoughts on Improvisation: A Comparative Approach; 12 Theatre of the Oppressed; 13 Group Creativity: Musical Performance and Collaboration; 14 Community Performance: Improvising Being-Together; 15 ""Paradise Now"": Notes; 16 Chicanas'' Experience in Collective Theatre: Ideology and Form; 17 Spontaneous Combustion: Notes on Dance Improvisation from the Sixties to the Nineties; 18 Luminous Axis -- Blade-form Panel (Graphic Score); Part 3 Flow; 19 Improvised Flow: Opening Statements; 20 A Theoretical Model for Enjoyment; 21 Keynote Presentation (Guelph) 2007 (Graphic Score).

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