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  • Improvisation, often shortened to improv, is the activity of making or doing something not planned beforehand, using whatever can be found. The origin...
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  • Jazz improvisation is the spontaneous invention of melodic solo lines or accompaniment parts in a performance of jazz music. It is one of the defining...
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  • Contact improvisation is a practice of movement research, where improvisation and momentum, relation with gravity and with others are the main focus....
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  • The Improvised Son (French: Le fils improvisé) is a 1932 French comedy film directed by René Guissart and starring Fernand Gravey, Florelle and Saturnin...
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    An improvised explosive device (IED) is a bomb constructed and deployed in ways other than in conventional military action. It may be constructed of conventional...
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    Improvisational theatre, often called improvisation or improv, is the form of theatre, often comedy, in which most or all of what is performed is unplanned...
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  • Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre is a book written in 1979 by theatre educator Keith Johnstone. The book is divided into four sections: "Status",...
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  • Dance improvisation is the process of spontaneously creating movement. Development of movement material is facilitated through a variety of creative explorations...
    12 KB (1,496 words) - 08:34, 6 June 2023
  • instrumental technique as well as spontaneous response to other musicians. Sometimes musical ideas in improvisation are spontaneous, but may be based on chord changes...
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    Concord, California, in 1967. They were invited to a high school and decided to do their improvisations on the war in Vietnam. On the way home in a Volkswagen...
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  • environment. Improvisations may also refer to: Improvisations (Ravi Shankar album), 1962 Improvisations (Stéphane Grappelli album), 1956 Improvisations (Ran Blake...
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  • improvisation or free music is improvised music without any general rules, instead following the intuition of its performers. The term can refer to both...
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    Improvised firearms (sometimes called zip guns, pipe guns, or slam guns) are firearms manufactured other than by a firearms manufacturer or a gunsmith...
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  • Symphony for Improvisers is an album by American jazz trumpeter Don Cherry, released by Blue Note Records in August 1967. It features Gato Barbieri, Henry...
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  • Improvision is a software developer based in Coventry, England. The company is the developer of Confocal, live cell imaging and image analysis software...
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    An improvised weapon is an object that was not designed to be used as a weapon but can be put to that use. They are generally used for self-defence or...
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  • Improvisations to Music is the first comedy album by Nichols and May. It was released on December 15, 1958, by Mercury Records. The sketches were recorded...
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  • The Art of the Improvisers is an album credited to jazz composer and saxophonist Ornette Coleman, released by Atlantic Records in 1970. The album was...
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  • Live and Improvised is a two compact disc live album by the band Blood, Sweat & Tears, that was originally released in 1976 as a live album entitled In...
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  • Applied Improvisation Network was founded, a non-profit organization of people committed to using applied improvisation. Applied improvisation sees use...
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