By Karen Erickson and use it in our classrooms? So many of us engage students in improvisation without considering the many variations of improvisational drama work available to us, or how …

The dialogic, open-scripted, interactive and responsive aspects of improvisation are common features for all the traditions we have examined and could provide a common basis for improvisation as a key …

Learning jazz improvisation skills can help build more empathetic human beings, when the focus of improvisation is on reacting to what you hear in a clear and concise manner.

Learning Objective: Students will learn or review the term “improvisation” and generate musical ideas using musical ideas using a limited set of rhythms or pitches.

class is designed for them. The lessons of acceptance, confident vulnerability and collaboration that Improvisation has to teach us can make us better partners, parents, co-worker

I introduced a series of brief improvisation experiences into my lesson plans for each class. Now students had to take risks in order to complete improvisation tasks. This was not an environment …

From here, questions and challenges that improvisation raises for the traditional work-of-art concept, the type-token distinction and the appreciation and evaluation of the arts will be explored.