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"improvisation" Definitions
  1. the act of inventing music, the words in a play, a statement, etc. while you are playing or speaking, instead of planning it in advance; something that is invented in this way

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Hurried improvisation In a sign of the hurried improvisation in the West Wing, McMaster brought up plans to brief the press by several hours to 11:30 a.m.
The electronics I play will determine the way they play their instruments, and my improvisation will demand further improvisation from the player to find a resolution in a unified manner.
"Three Genres of Improvisation" (June 11) brings in an additional three curators, including David Garland for music, Roxane Butterfly for tap dance, and Tim O'Donnell and Sarah Young for contact improvisation.
In other words, more in terms of … jazz improvisation.
There's little room for improvisation or creativity in your approach.
It makes improvisation without theory possible, and I love it.
That's the improvisation phase, which yields different decisions every time.
The collective improvisation highlighted how vulnerable the country has become.
And then he'd be improvising on top of his improvisation.
One song, "Untitled Improvisation FD 1.10," was released on Thursday.
Flying Lotus, leading a virtuosic jazz ensemble, lets improvisation reign.
Traditionally, commedia has had a topical component in its improvisation.
Josh: Still seems more like improvisation than strategy to me.
There was a lot of improvisation in the early days.
Traditional hierarchical management systems strongly discourage this kind of improvisation.
Like, with Common, some of the fight scene was an improvisation.
She'd been taught that there was ruin in too much improvisation.
Improvisation is a big part of your method, is that right?
What role, if any, did improvisation play in the album's creation?
I just heard your improvisation of your radio and double bass.
With some financial improvisation, it's easy to compose a healthy return.
What's the percentage of planning and improvisation in your working process?
Like performing music, games are a blend of recitation and improvisation.
However, the film's director was not a fan of Monroe's improvisation.
Early on we have Picasso turning improvisation into a personal style.
They play with looseness and intensity, emphasizing stretches of dynamic improvisation.
Improvisation, generally antithetical to Cunningham dance, became appealing to Mr. Paxton.
When building a monster, improvisation and the natural landscape take precedent.
Improvisation, we're reminded, is at the heart of any winter holiday.
His routines were generally a mix of set pieces and improvisation.
Mr. Todorowski doesn't use the word "improvisation" to describe this process.
Much of the collages using found sound seemed to involve improvisation.
A lot of it came out of improvisation on the day.
It probably wouldn't have happened, Mr. Trost said, without forced improvisation.
But SABIC has already shown the crown prince's capacity for improvisation.
The president's penchant for improvisation may not have served him well.
And he made it impossible to guess exactly where improvisation met rehearsal.
However, it takes a lot of hard work and improvisation at times.
NEW HAVEN "Hooking Up With the Second City," sketch and improvisation. Feb.
It makes the shows meatier than most improvisation, if less wildly unpredictable.
A lot of your records have been based around improvisation and openness.
In his enthusiasm, Mr Gioia's analysis of improvisation sometimes veers into abstraction.
All the while, he pursued his passion for jazz saxophone and improvisation.
Reporters were working around the restrictions, with some improvisation on social media.
Though this might not be the improvisation most people had in mind.
She could play almost anything by ear, and her improvisation skills soared.
For Korman, control and improvisation are two sides of the same coin.
"[Hamasyan is] a master in jamming and improvisation," van Leer tells Creators.
It's an exercise in improvisation, a chance to riff off a theme.
Naturally, Robin wanted some improvisation, so those two worlds had to meet.
The MacGyver-like improvisation resulted in part from the program's low budget.
They operate out of sets, but Harden is a master of improvisation.
But what looks like grand strategy is often improvisation — amid America's retreat.
The pianist and conceptualist has always blended visual media with jazz improvisation.
Any solution will ultimately require a certain amount of improvisation and flexibility.
That's the beauty of improvisation and collaborations: that the unexpected can happen.
Vegas goalie Marc-Andre Fleury praised Rittich's maturity, patience, agility and improvisation.
As a result, the city is engaged in one giant collective improvisation.
There was no method to what he did; it was all improvisation.
It was also the first time improvisation had featured in her work.
He wowed teammates and coaches right away with his arm and improvisation.
You're also working with a larger cast and more improvisation than usual.
Only the final destination remains the same, the rest is improvisation, flux.
And they were buffeted by constant improvisation and last-minute shifts in planning.
How did the less experienced actors among the cast deal with the improvisation?
Their number is growing, reports Kelly Leonard, the club's boss of "applied improvisation".
Here are 10 of the greatest scenes born of improvisation in movie history.
"It's really like jazz improvisation, what LSD does to your brain," says Atasoy.
His role has been an x-factor, enhancing our improvisation and adding bombast.
This is improvisation over them, where granularity has been moved to individual functions.
Improvisation is like composition, so that was just what it felt to me.
"There is a lot of improvisation in Indian classical music," Mr. Neiburger said.
This album is more complex and thoughtful, the songwriting is less about improvisation.
For the Mem Aleph material, improvisation comes into play in a couple ways.
He senses, in other words, the urgency, improvisation, and spontaneity in Smith's process.
It demanded experience, improvisation, discipline, solidarity, and immense toughness of body and mind.
Improvisation and ability to catch a momentum is extremely important in this process.
Alda persevered, attended Fordham University and studied theater and improvisation in New York.
So let's articulate the way it's framed through a different form of improvisation.
On "Distant Radio Transmission," Stephen Harvey did the transcription [of the original improvisation].
With some financial improvisation, it's easy to come up with a healthy return.
It is not an exaggeration to say life itself is one long improvisation.
The key to successful improvisation is getting your self out of the way.
Unlike other brand-based behaviors, they leave little room for improvisation or change.
"Because after all, has there ever been any greater improvisation than America itself?"
Or you could thread the needle between project and improvisation and make stew.
Yes, there was an urge to do something in the vein of improvisation.
Brazilians, with their love for soccer and for improvisation, ensured their countryman received recognition.
The notions of impulse, improvisation, and intuition are at the core of my interests.
I sort of moved there to really see if could go deeper into improvisation.
Your actor says something unexpected that's a better improvisation than what's in the script.
The same air of improvisation hangs over plans for public security, a crucial issue.
But it was his improvisation in a match against Sweden that made him immortal.
Plays would look similar: just looser, less linear, less rigid, more open to improvisation.
In jazz music, the whole point of improvisation is that you push the tradition.
Studies have found that musicians use more notes during improvisation compared to memorized play.
That said, they leave a whole lot of room for improvisation on the show.
But, no matter how diligently you plan a scene, there is always some improvisation.
She works primarily as a composer; she is not a pioneer of free improvisation.
This precisely notated, essentially 12-tone score includes stretches of improvisation, within given parameters.
Several records later, his emphasis on richly layered improvisation has remained a delightful constant.
The pianist Connie Crothers, a guest, is likely to demonstrate her specialty, free improvisation.
I was studying theater at school, discovering improvisation, but I wasn't playing any music.
But they lack everything that makes a human player strong: adaptability, improvisation and imagination.
Lucy would often create a second, connected patch and we would record an improvisation.
It conveys immediacy, material reality, improvisation as well as flamboyance and glamour, savoir faire.
This is one of those facts of musical life, especially in improvisation: People matter.
Among White House aides, improvisation and favor-trading overrode any semblance of political strategy.
Too often, though, her work has the texture of transcription, not invention or improvisation.
Her language is part chamber jazz, part big-boned rock percussion, part free improvisation.
"Bells for the South Side" has some vibrant chamber pieces that also include improvisation.
What does Mr. Lewis say about improvisation and audience interaction in black marching bands?
And Mr. Scott makes a point of spreading his approach to improvisation in person.
It was all improvisation, done while the artist was in a trance-like state.
Yes. They basically have this, "Pay this amount of money and we'll take you through this improvisation, six classes of improvisation," and when you're done, you sort of audition for one of the touring companies and you also put on this show.
The Foreign Service's culture relies too heavily on improvisation and not enough on strategic thinking.
BRIDGEPORT Just Add Water, improvisation, and the Duke's Men of Yale, a capella pop. Feb.
Whether by improvisation or design, the refugee crisis will reshape the urban landscape in Europe.
Most useful to the uninitiated, the book provides tips on what good improvisation really means.
The show's big problem, I think, was that of many putatively avant-garde shows: improvisation.
"Free improvisation was going to change the world," he said of his generation's 1960s dreams.
If anything, he discovered that there was no secret — except persistence, humor, improvisation and grit.
We spent six months crafting "Runaways" using a lot of improvisation (and profound personal sharing).
From Tristano, Ms. Crothers adopted a densely layered pianism and a faith in free improvisation.
In the Delhi ward, the most ordinary procedure was an occasion for triage and improvisation.
Much of the choreography came out of improvisation exercises, which Mr. Pita would then edit.
Channel Mendieta by embracing improvisation, instinct, and ephemerality, and you can't go wrong in April.
My own experience — in the days before the internet and cellphones — depended greatly on improvisation.
In November, New World Records released a 220-minute Eastman solo-piano improvisation from 1980.
In her own work, the artist embraces the natural fluidity and improvisation of the process.
Ms. Mutu's sense of improvisation, creepiness and perversity re-emerges when her imagination exceeds realism.
Caving is a form of improvisation: you say yes to whatever door the earth opens.
Thank god I love to improvise, because motherhood is the biggest improvisation I've ever done.
Thank god I love to improvise, because motherhood is the biggest improvisation I've ever done.
A few years ago, I began to program improvisation into the main part of my concerts.
There was no way to easily pull this off, so Prebble resorted to an impressive improvisation.
In truth, Wilson's improvisation in Minneapolis would register as just a warm-up by day's end.
That neatly fits the world of the show, which is dedicated to riffing and improvisation, too.
Heroic improvisation and gallows humor can only get a population of 3.3 million people so far.
That story of improvisation and resilience is common across Puerto Rico, despite slow-moving recovery efforts.
The improvisation draws from a pool of movements we have developed over the past three years.
There's improvisation in the Arabic music you play, but you're also improvising in the jazz tradition.
But that definition was always suspect: it excluded jazz composers, whose tradition combines notation and improvisation.
But he has shown how constrained improvisation could be a powerful approach at home and abroad.
Harrington's newest project, Dave Harrington Group, is an attempt to take that improvisation a step further.
Jazz, she said, served "as a catalyst to inspire my experimentation with improvisation, form and technique."
Like my trip to the Adjara mountains, going to the Makhtesh was an act of improvisation.
Is it a brilliantly assembled suite of compositions for trio, or a loose, 30-minute improvisation?
"Create space for spontaneity, exploration of new surroundings, and improvisation with family and friends," he said.
Their style of collective improvisation has a different ecological inspiration: the flow of birds in migration.
I even snuck off with some other young Jehovah's Witnesses and formed a comedy improvisation group.
Sometimes improvisation can result in good things, but other times it is a recipe for disaster.
The simplicity of the original Waldorf salad has encouraged improvisation, almost since the dish was introduced.
Krautrock exults in repetition, sometimes as a backdrop to improvisation and sometimes as pure exposed structure.
With some inspired back-channel improvisation, Keynes brought these modest, prefatory negotiations to a successful conclusion.
I really like the improvisation, and the fact that making the film is the whole adventure.
All of it has a degree of improvisation and I try not to premeditate too much.
Like Mr. Newsome, Ms. LaBeija (in the program note) pays lip service to the virtues of improvisation, but high-level improvisation is as rigorous a discipline as choreography, and much of "Untitled," mixing bits of vogue with shallow borrowings from ballet and other forms, lacked sustaining power.
So they were open to improvisation as well, which is something I always asked of my actors.
The president, who glories in barbed improvisation during his rallies, has proved he can deliver telepromptered addresses.
He refuses to be confined to a menu and believes that all true cooking necessitates flamboyant improvisation.
"We come from a lost decade of corruption and improvisation, of stealing money from Panamanians," he said.
Rather, the determining concept seems to be a structured improvisation proceeding from a purposefully restricted visual vocabulary.
Big Lies fall from Trump's lips with the frantic improvisation of a crook under an interrogation lamp.
Most of all, he has a sense of wonderment at "happy accidents" -- again, a residue of improvisation.
You cringe and sometime rage when you see the nasty tweets, the childish taunts, the wild improvisation.
All the improvisation, being able to listen and follow, all of that stuff is part of boxing.
We lined them all up and did an improvisation of the first meeting with the drill instructor.
Improvisation is unusual in Irish dancing, where the choreography is more typically set and rehearsed in advance.
Mr. Bley, a pioneer of free improvisation on the piano, encouraged her to compose tunes for him.
" Coleman adapted the sonnet to the jazz methods of, as she put it, "progression, improvisation, mimicry, etc.
Her account of the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto follows the score but has the feel of an improvisation.
"It really stressed the importance of improvisation, which is virtually nonexistent in classical music playing," he said.
They are based entirely on past choices and activities and leave zero room for improvisation and unpredictability.
It's a bit like a big bazaar—lacking in rules and making up for it in improvisation.
No matter how structured the Dead became, extended group improvisation remained a hallmark of the band's sound.
In real life, that type of raw improvisation shows up in music like DC's native go go.
It feels as if everything has become very primal, requiring an instinct for improvisation I don't have.
Spaced apart, they played and listened, the resonance of the cistern informing the edges of their improvisation.
Even when tumbling through an open-plan improvisation, the two don't seem to be jockeying or sniping.
Like Smith with his now-shortened drum solos, he knows just how far to take his improvisation.
What many people miss is the unconventional and counterintuitive way Nozkowski keeps improvisation essential to his process.
Improvisation (or what can be defined as call and response) plays a central role in these works.
Perhaps a trio so committed to the ideal of improvisation that none of their music is composed.
Trump's crisis management style is essentially improvisation based on personal whims, not a response to concrete problems.
Much of the choreography, Ms. Grills said later, had come out of improvisation exercises she had developed.
He was also a forthright, bluesy singer who often used New Orleans standards as springboards for improvisation.
On the set, a farm near Belfast, the chemistry between Rihanna and O'Shaughnessy arose out of improvisation.
She would be appearing on stage as a guest monologuist for the improvisation company Upright Citizens Brigade.
On "Prairie Burn," she issues rugged, two-handed counterpoint; dense smashes of harmony; and simmering blues improvisation.
An Iyer improvisation has a shapeliness that involves holding in mind possible serial forms and evoking them.
Throughout "8000 Feet on the Ground," her solo improvisation on Saturday, she superbly changed meter and dynamics.
It consists of piecemeal tactical maneuvers, but in fact, it is a combination of continuity and improvisation.
So much of Black interior form is shaped through tools and systems of codification, improvisation, and repetition.
Unmannered rubato gave a sense of moment-to-moment improvisation, of a halting search for honest expression.
The artist admits that everything isn't overly complicated in his digital renderings—mostly his process relies on improvisation.
" Elaborating on the band's freewheeling approach to improvisation, he added: "The opportunities are endless as far as soloing.
These items reveal the degree of improvisation that took place during the historic first mission to the Moon.
For that bit of improvisation, he earned a spot on National Geographic's best space photos of 2009. 4.
In my book, I talk about improvisation as a means by which physicists can engage in the unknown.
He is the author of The Shadow and the Act: Black Intellectual Practice, Jazz Improvisation, and Philosophical Pragmatism.
But they are trained for improvisation and flexibility—to do whatever it takes to build what needs building.
SR: You have a background in comedy and improvisation and performance, which is perhaps rare for a poet.
Jazz is the core of music that incorporates African rhythms, improvisation, and a certain type of vocal expression.
Pyre's simple rules and character types provide an massive canvas for characters' special skills, clutch saves, and improvisation.
Tennis is improvisation between two players within a definite structure, which could be extended to reader and writer.
Clips of Mr. Murray's "Saturday Night Live" and film appearances highlighted his eccentric charm and knack for improvisation.
For Mr. Dylan, the Rolling Stones, Mr. Young and the Who, that meant spiking their songs with improvisation.
As in "a•form," her works have often been developed collaboratively and rely on observation, communication, and improvisation.
Among print mediums, and perhaps all works on paper, monotypes were and remain hotbeds of spontaneity and improvisation.
Rather, going back to Deng Xiao Ping, it has blended strong rule with "directed improvisation," she tells Axios.
Later in his career he taught composition and improvisation at Columbia University, Syracuse University, Stanford University and elsewhere.
Mr. Coltrane's music finds a tottery balance in the space between free-form improvisation and pulsing, onrushing flow.
These are pieced together in a way that synthesizes formal improvisation with the industrial imperatives of loungewear production.
A fan favorite, Radwanska earned nicknames like Ninja and the Professor because of her improvisation and shotmaking skills.
In an improvisation class in 29, the instructor asked her to dance and speak at the same time.
It was a great hardship, but Mr. Torn treated it as just another part of life's ongoing improvisation.
Though at first blush it might sound like chaotic improvisation, the complex arrangement was clearly labored over intensely.
Each pitch is sustained in the orchestra, creating a swirl of sound typically reserved for electronics and improvisation.
The pianist and composer Elisabeth Harnik will perform a sprawling improvisation inspired by the Symphony No. 290. Oct.
But equality comes in different forms, and at KO_OP, they've found, through fits and starts and improvisation, progress.
Unlike many, this approach to free improvisation is not individualist or strident or perhaps even consciously avant-garde.
For this culmination of a Danspace residency, programs will touch on improvisation, movement, fellowship, music and discussion. Dec.
The improvisation skills I learned in a music class ended up being useful years later when giving presentations.
Rostand's play isn't so much about brain versus brawn; it celebrates wit, sprezzatura and the art of improvisation.
"In any collective improvisation, you hear people staking out positions," he told me one day, in his office.
She delivers a pulsing, haunted version, taking flights of lyrical improvisation, note after note soaring over single syllables.
He later left the organization because, he said, he had been uninspired by its focus on free improvisation.
Some passages hint of avant-garde jazz, like an audacious Cecil Taylor improvisation, but with flintier modernist madness.
I had heard of their shows around town, which seemed like a mixture of improvisation and performance art.
This is perhaps what tabletop RPGs have over video games; a greater possibility for improvisation and unusual events.
For the sake of trying and also knowing I would form a lot of my record around improvisation.
Certainly, last night's chaos looked indicative of a ceremony so sterile, so synthetic, that improvisation would have been inconceivable.
Together, the four musicians also pushed each other beyond improvisation and into more structured experiments in sound and composition.
The need for improvisation was paramount, as the wind moving the barrier threw a wrench in Mark's careful training.
Pentimenti are a sort of creative improvisation, where one's hand follows the movement of the subject in real time.
He fills in the vacuum of his policy knowledge with lies, bombast, and dangerous (though often crowd-pleasing) improvisation.
To its many detractors, it amounts to little more than pretentious noodling, based as it is largely on improvisation.
The people, the architecture, the space itself and its history define the performance and the flow of the improvisation.
Created after the premiere of the cello score, this improvisation was intended to serve as a prelude to it.
Such reach, such dexterous mobility for someone who is 6-foot-5, such measured yet audacious power of improvisation.
But his power game has also been more mechanical than inspirational: weak on improvisation and adjustments on the fly.
But equally, it could end up being a brief scripted interlude in an administration defined by chaos and improvisation.
But he's less interested in illustrating this point than tracing the careers of stars with a connection to improvisation.
The focus on the film careers of "Saturday Night Live" stars raises a broader question: What is improvisation anyway?
Steeped in the blues, he also created works for chamber ensembles and orchestras, sometimes but not always including improvisation.
The piece began as a riotous improvisation by Mr. Mitchell, the pianist Craig Taborn and the percussionist Kikanju Baku.
The Warriors are the foremost practitioners of America's beautiful game, and when they are engaged their improvisation is riveting.
If the joy of serendipity is one of the reasons to travel, then improvisation is how you get there.
That's illustrative of the hectic improvisation that's characterized much of the Trump administration's response to the current border influx.
He studied drama and improvisation at the Steppenwolf Theater Company in Chicago and is well versed in Stephen Sondheim.
A degree of improvisation was required and I realized that these personal touches are what makes the illustrations interesting.
We did an improvisation of that scene and it actually changed the scene, I went in and rewrote it.
Founded on a love of improvisation, they have roots in Abstract Expressionist painting, Process Art sculpture and Neo-Expressionism.
LAVA illustrates its themes of trust, strength and support through human pyramids, hoop jumping, aerial exploits and contact improvisation.
The song was "So What," and his point was that journalism required a sense of adventure, improvisation and humility.
She casts a wide net: South Asian dance, improvisation, Irish step and drag are all represented in the festival.
The quartet in residence will be PubliQuartet, which incorporates improvisation and contemporary compositions into its performances of the canon.
The new record, which upholds the ensemble's mutinous approach to improvisation and melody, heralds the Jazz Passengers' 30th anniversary.
In fact, it was a bold spate of post-storm improvisation that helped truly put Houston on the map.
He recalls the choreographer Emio Greco encouraging him to "push more, go for more" and introducing him to improvisation.
The renegade Italian cellist-composer Giovanni Sollima led exercises in improvisation, from Baroque styles to avant-garde noise-making.
At first, this group improvisation felt serene, as instrumentalists circled the crowd and paced the margins of the venue.
Dixit (age 6 and up) is a card game about improvisation and imagination instead of strategy or swift moves.
He fears improvisation and departure, fears the traveler taking liberties, the poem speaking directly to the heresy of paraphrase.
More importantly, though, how can curators capture the qualities of improvisation and witnessing that make live performance so compelling?
Confederates seek loot and suppliesThis irregular guerrilla war was an improvisation that began in earnest in the summer of 1862.
Off-the-wall vignettes, several of which rely on improvisation and audience participation, do not typically bring television executives knocking.
For the most part, I'll share live versions or variations of existing pieces alongside unreleased material, leaving room for improvisation.
For Miles Davis or Coltrane to do improvisation, they knew the instrument, they knew the chords, they knew the keys.
Since they didn't think of themselves as a team, just getting them together for each adventure involved improbable logistical improvisation.
As for most underage migrants traveling without their parents, his trip north has been a feat of improvisation and courage.
There was a lot of improvisation, and Bridget [Everett] and I both wet ourselves because we were laughing so much.
Rodrigues has also carved out a space to fold in elements of jazz, using the genre's symbiotic relationship with improvisation.
"(We will) introduce the necessary changes, without hurry and with no improvisation, which would only lead to failure," he said.
So to make string theory accommodate improvisation in the universe, the theory needs to be pushed beyond its own boundaries.
By the way, later in Flanagan's career, he made up for his shaky performance by recording a near-flawless improvisation:
Since "in a curry" was pretty much the entire explanation the Styles gave for his sprouts dish, improvisation was key.
That's not to say that Lee succumbs to the offhand improvisation of some abstract expressionists or Japan's antecedent Gutai movement.
Any side that begins with a technological advantage will see it erode quickly as the underdogs improve their improvisation capabilities.
Do we understand Feynman diagrams or the Uncertainty Principle any better for having seen them through the lens of improvisation?
Some sections are improvisational, with Sorey following a technique that the late Butch Morris described as "conduction," or conducted improvisation.
In college, Manziel was a swashbuckling talent, an undersized playmaker and a master of improvisation in an increasingly robotic position.
Mr. Mekurya performed with the Ex, but he earned one of the evening's loudest cheers with a vaulting unaccompanied improvisation.
He began to read books on philosophy and mysticism, bringing religious curiosity into his music, mixing performance, improvisation and spirituality.
Unlike past instances when Trump's toughest rhetoric came during moments of improvisation, his words on Monday were not ad-libbed.
By the 1980s, the Second City style focused on short scenes and using improvisation as a tool to make sketches.
It was a beautiful improvisation that predicted basically everything Lil Wayne would build his sound around for the next decade.
At home in New York, she invests this knowledge in improvisation, working with some of the best jazz musicians around.
Such an eclectic approach dictates improvisation over purity, and Taino Smokehouse shows how rewardingly barbecue can subsume other culinary traditions.
Harrington described Become Alive as a product of free improvisation with experimental recording and sampling techniques in a press statement.
These acts of improvisation are not without consequence, but they're often reversible or can be walked back by other staff.
The performance Improvisation on Five Sequences showcased an artist in absolute tune with her tools, her inspiration, and her muse.
Now based in New York City, she's become known both for her solo work and her improvisation in various bands.
At the Jazz Gallery, they hardly addressed that source material, instead swerving quickly into the open terrain of free improvisation.
The trumpeter Jaimie Branch guested with the group, and took a fiery solo during a stretch that allowed for improvisation.
"The idea there was to try to make a film in five days using different processes of improvisation," says Lee.
Along with the radically abbreviated "Macbeth," the performers arrive with scripted bits of humor, and room is left for improvisation.
The composers of the period "had a fascination with improvisation and an almost schizophrenic idea of the emotions," he said.
He erodes consonants, turns simple vowels into unpredictable diphthongs, and takes each new sentence as an opportunity for rococo improvisation.
But in those nerve-jangling final minutes when improvisation, poise and toughness are required, Stafford can be at his best.
But after more than two years of improvisation, there is growing consensus on the need for a more united front.
They're four women — Katherine Ferrier, Lisa Gonzales, Jennifer Kayle and Pamela Vail — who teach improvisation as a mode of performance.
In "Last Work," one idea was that there would be no improvisation; another involved three words: baby, ballerina and executioner.
He had entered the portion of the day that required improvisation and briefly struggled to figure out what to do.
Now, using artists' capacities for insight, imagination, improvisation, and innovation, we all have the power to thrive in a dark time.
Unlike traditional productions that have a set script and spend their time workshopping delivery, devised productions rely on invention and improvisation.
For months, Trump had treated the campaign as his own personal open mic night, commanding the stage with his audacious improvisation.
" A video shared on Twitter shows bandmate Jade Thirlwall cracking up after the apparent improvisation, prompting Edwards to scold, "Jade, don't!
The show has retained an impression of seat-of-the-pants, frantic improvisation, such as one associates with local shoestring entertainments.
The work consists of a series of musical situations which, though meticulously composed, allow for generous amounts of improvisation and flexibility.
Besides a minor glitch with the first ovary and some improvisation after a few missed buses, it was generally smooth sailing.
Money in those days was not an issue, since no one in Bellamy's crowd had any and survival depended on improvisation.
This charming gift of constructive improvisation is clearly inherited from Annie, who designs doll's houses, replicating her own experience in miniature.
"Comrade Diaz-Canel isn't upstart or an improvisation," Castro said in 2013 when he first announced his plans to step down.
This is one of the reasons why he doesn't use assistants in his creative process—it's impossible to direct someone's improvisation.
But what was originally borne from improvisation and a desire to live simply is now borne from unimaginable mountains of cash.
You go in thinking it's just a normal improvisation lesson, and then the teacher brings up this game: master and slave.
That's the one thing I really liked about being a part of this, because I come from a world of improvisation.
Miles's quintets set the standard for jazz improvisation for generations to come, in addition to pushing the boundaries of music theory.
And hopefully this improvisation could turn into some sort of formal approach to dealing with offenders convicted of terrorism-related offences.
Muffet McGraw, Notre Dame's coach, acknowledged that the play, and ultimately the victory, had resulted more from improvisation than from design.
But after that improvisation was transcribed and rearranged for its first orchestral recording, its composer was not yet finished exploring it.
"If the joy of serendipity is one of the reasons to travel, then improvisation is how you get there," he writes.
Over four distinct programs, the artists use the ingredients of Butoh — dance, theater, improvisation, primal emotions — to respond to today's world.
"During a crisis, improvisation is critical and everyone has to look at new ways to help the most vulnerable," said Schwarzenegger.
The two of them would typically play a full set of far-ranging improvisation, all based around a single jazz standard.
"I like posting because it's essentially a massive exercise in improvisation," said one user, who posts as local librarian Colin Thesaurus.
While "Tea for Three" will make references to past dances, including Ms. Rainer's seminal "Trio A," improvisation will also be evident.
Mr. Abercrombie played with a handful of rising musicians inhabiting the divide between avant-garde improvisation, jazz tradition and hard rock.
Along the way he became known as one of the seminal figures of the improvisation-oriented, genre-crossing jam-band movement.
This is not composed music, but rather improvisation that is as structured as though they'd played this closing a hundred times.
Today, like most days, he will prepare lunch for his dozen or so employees, an improvisation inspired by Paris's best produce.
They are a combination of structure and improvisation, the latter a particularly American practice that comes from Abstract Expressionism and jazz.
"Contact Improvisation #3" is distinctive in playing roughly circular shapes off the boxier forms (and the "box" of the canvas itself).
You'd be hard-pressed to find someone who knows doggy CPR, so when man's best friend is in trouble, improvisation is key.
In "Inoah," in our improvisation, we're always searching for a gesture [that connects] two people, a gesture that needs the other person.
A graceful meld of jazz and Middle Eastern improvisation, it was posted online so that fans could stream it free of charge.
Rock Band VR is a fairly major revamp of the popular rhythm game franchise, focusing more on improvisation than precise note-matching.
But it was Wilson's remarkable improvisation on another misplay early in the fourth quarter that got the Seahawks back into the game.
"The show … explores the relationship between human creativity and the innovative technologies that enable the freedom of improvisation," the event page noted.
What I've found so far on a musical level is new melodies, new harmonies, new ways to approach rhythm, melody, and improvisation.
He was turning himself into a different type of piano player, ripping open a portal into the world of scales and improvisation.
This excess of forward planning in a region accustomed to last-minute improvisation smacked of nervousness about tougher times ahead in Bolivia.
Robert Altman (director of M.A.S.H. and Nashville, among others) assembled huge ensemble casts and allowed for ample room for improvisation and exploration.
Kamila Stanley is one of those precocious, self-taught, up-and-coming photographers whose improvisation and effortless captured moments get me excited.
"I had always intuitively understood that the creative process in jazz improvisation is very different than the process of memorization," he explained.
Both Mr. Dylan and the Stones hold on to a 1960s spirit of improvisation; with them, no two concerts are the same.
This clearing ends with a moment of improvisation in response to Benbow's drum solo reminiscent of ceremonies in West African spiritual traditions.
King is an interesting player for a number of reasons that have nothing to do with his knack for choreography or improvisation.
Aurelius is also a part of the Sacred Bones-affiliated punk band Destruction Unit and the mystical performance-oriented improvisation project Marshstepper.
"It's the Giving, Not the Taking" and the middle of "Frank's Frolic" were two recent songs involving some level of studio improvisation.
This means that they write a story and fill in the dialogue and some plot points with improvisation and dice-based gameplay.
It was characterized by improvisation jams, strange imagery, experimentation, inconsistent rhythms, discordant harmonies, abrupt changes in timbre, and general defiance of convention.
While this rigor may not have worked for a seasoned comedian, someone accustomed to improvisation, Brosnahan took to the constraints right away.
For the last half-century, Mr. Shepherd returned regularly to improvisation as a form of entertainment and a tool for social good.
In "Desire Lines," Rashaun Mitchell and Silas Riener create a two-week slate of improvisation that explores ideas about change and connection.
All travel requires a degree of improvisation, and Bourdain and his cameramen are well versed in reconceiving a show on the fly.
He compares it to improvisation, where actors and actresses confront the situations thrust on them and try to function inside those limits.
The following night, the Kris Davis Trio will play, along with a large band performing John Zorn's "Cobra," an improvisation-driven composition.
On Pro Basketball When they were last together, Mike D'Antoni imposed ball-sharing improvisation on Carmelo Anthony's out-of-my-way isolation.
Similarly, a Franz Kline painting appears on Countdown: Time in Outer Space, and a Jackson Pollock on Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation.
Ms. Bauer's choreography draws heavily on Steve Paxton's practice of contact improvisation, in which dancers respond to and anticipate each other's motions.
In fact, the improvisation I enjoyed the most was the one that sounded like it was actually played on a real piano.
There is something special about working with great comedy actors like Rufus Jones, Justin Edwards, and Chris Wright, who are exceptional at improvisation.
It combines a common flamenco structure and flamenco-type rhythms and melodies with classic New Orleans jazz blues style and improvisation, he said.
The group complicates the harmonies and fills the interstices of the songs with improvisation, often with Mr. McCaslin's saxophone chasing Mr. Bowie's voice.
We talked about making an improvisation-heavy film, and just how hot it was in Alabama during Sword of Trust's 16-day shoot.
When participants' improvisation is helping drive the action, the experience could fall apart if they're not able to invest or pull their weight.
Ms. Kirk, 77, is the widow of Rahsaan Roland Kirk, the blind multi-instrumentalist with a reputation for fierce musicianship and daring improvisation.
The Caledonia Soul Orchestra included a string section and horns, playing fixed arrangements and rehearsed passages, but every song made room for improvisation.
With a mix of choreographed movement and improvisation, Sanchis and De Keersmaeker have conjured a physical counterpart to John Coltrane's famous 1964 album.
The music has formal rigor and forward pull, but it doesn't provide an orienting framework, or any clear distinctions between composition and improvisation.
Beyond his omnipresent party tracks, he's also long filtered dance music through a more mature lens—rooted in classicist musicianship and heady improvisation.
" The latter shows most clearly in the nine-person, double drum kit, live-in-the-studio, 32-minute long directed-improvisation "Shine (Glimmer).
The federal and local governments reacted much faster this time around, but as midnight neared, there was still a considerable sense of improvisation.
In finding a way to present both pieces at once, she raises the improvisation-friendly nature of these compositions to a new height.
It came about as an improvisation — some customers came into Chaya Brasserie one day and didn't want red meat, according to the Atlantic.
Like an X-ray, the works cut through Whitney's carefully calibrated color schemes to the dialectic of structure and improvisation that lies beneath.
Ms. Hart's paintings, like many of those of Romare Bearden, Stuart Davis and Jackson Pollock, were inspired by the dynamic improvisation of jazz.
Clem, a kind of anarchist bridezilla, welcomes improvisation, inviting various nonbinary friends to come camp out with their dog, their baby, some pot.
Whether or not a series of controlled tests can really hold a candle to Machii's instincts, improvisation, and creativity is up for debate.
Sam Rivers and Anthony Braxton, on flutes and reed instruments, were structural innovators and freethinkers, deciding how wide-open improvisation could conjure stories.
And each day, Karl Berger, the 82-year-old pianist, vibraphonist and theorist, gave lessons in rhythmic practice, close listening and group improvisation.
But few American leaders have ever made and disclosed major foreign policy decisions with the speed and seeming improvisation that Mr. Trump does.
Four musicians from the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra came to play some music, including an improvisation of "Amazing Grace," one of Mr. Cummings's favorites.
But his innate, bottomless curiosity about the world also taught his four daughters to be open to new experiences and comfortable with improvisation.
Many of the teachers there, she said, were interested in improvisation as a tool to create dance vocabulary and for use in performance.
But Democrats just as swiftly dismissed the events as another example of what they call Mr. Trump's feral and feckless government by improvisation.
Instead, Mr. Trump has simply sidelined the security council and its role in coordinating foreign policy, relegating it to on-the-fly improvisation.
It has three segments: piano from 6 to 8, vocals from 8 to 203, and improvisation for all instruments, from 10 to midnight.
"There was a heavy focus in Adia's mind on improvisation and allowing space for weird experiments and futuristic alchemy to happen," Dessner said.
The two artists' complementary backgrounds in art-rock, metal, modern classical and jazz promise to make for a riveting evening of unrestrained improvisation.
Mr. Loussier was classically trained, but he had dabbled in jazz improvisation for years when he formed the Jacques Loussier Trio in 1959.
The virtuosity of the dancers, the specificity of each living movement dazzled me, but what really struck me was the sense of improvisation.
He later took techniques commonly attributed to Rouch — especially handheld camerawork and collaborative improvisation — in a wild, fabulist direction with his live-action work.
Even if sometimes they had to resort, in classic Russian style, to improvisation — including buying junked ships from Turkey — they kept the force supplied.
He combines swing and syncopation with ambitious improvisation, and blends these jazz elements with the splendid melodies of the sort conjured by folk players.
Lotte-Lublin had gone to Cosby's room because offered to tutor her in acting improvisation, she said, but he insisted she drink some alcohol.
Alabama's fireworks on offense were enough to offset a brilliant effort from Watson, who dazzled with his arm, his legs and dizzying improvisation skills.
A huge aspect of what makes Rick and Morty stand out from all other TV comedies, animated or otherwise, is its emphasis on improvisation.
Avengers: Infinity War is such a tightly paced movie that it's hard to think about improvisation slipping through the cracks of Marvel's master plan.
Mr. Benbow, a veteran musician, understands improvisation, and as he worked up a brilliant abstraction of stripper music, Ms. LaBeija's charisma emerged most fully.
They reveal Mr. Sweat as an enthusiastic raconteur, eager to regale his questioners with his backwoods accomplishments and his MacGyver-like skills of improvisation.
A newly posted video captures the restless spark of their improvisation, featuring Mr. Allen's far-out bleeps and tones on EWI, a windblown synthesizer.
"With improvisation, it is like with good jazz; it really only works if you can play the instrument and the notes perfectly," he said.
We did a one-hour improvisation, and afterward she said to me, 'Oh, it is like I have always been dancing in that space.
"I sat on the bed trying to figure if I was given this situation in an acting improvisation what would I do," she wrote.
If most of his piano music has a feel of improvisation about it, the two books of "Préludes" celebrate this in a special way.
Some of her work is strictly improvisations, as on Free Improvisation Live Works I and II, where tracks go on for nearly 30 minutes.
J.P. Anthony Braxton has always seen his reconstituted, spatial music as a part of a wide tradition, lacing free improvisation into new compositional models.
In the 1970s, when Mr. Paxton was a founder of the improvisational group Grand Union, he developed contact improvisation, which became an international genre.
It was just that I realized it felt like any investigation around abstraction or improvisation or form would probably just be read as that.
With a bit of technical improvisation, scientists worked out that the bedrock of Mount Sharp appeared to be less dense than had been expected.
This is what he said to me in an interview that appeared in The Brooklyn Rail (November 2010): Improvisation […] is essential to my work.
But Stallworth's own performance — as a black-hating white guy eager to defend the Aryan race — required some quick-witted improvisation of his own.
Aries (March 222-April 219): Aries, you are exceptionally skilled in improvisation; you always know the quintessential words to say, right off the cusp.
Juggling several exchanges with men, narrating the conversation in various voices, she transforms the banter on a dating app into compelling long-form improvisation.
I studied theatrical improvisation for over 20 years, and one of the hardest things to do is preventing your imagination from ruining the scene.
Instead, embrace the spirit of improvisation and see what you can do with this prompt: roasted miso chicken with butternut squash and red onions.
During an athletic bout of sex, ingeniously staged by Daldry, using contact-improvisation-style moves as physical metaphor, Eric asks Toby to marry him.
With a lapidary touch, Mr. Jarrett ranges from Romantic pastiche to Coplandesque major harmonies to runs of boisterous swing, often in one free improvisation.
I started it in Lancaster while I was at the Movement Intensive in Compositional Improvisation, a yearly intensive I go to with the Architects.
To their supporters, the Mendozas represented the opposite of the principles espoused by Mr. Maduro: They stood for professionalism over improvisation, tradition over revolution.
Her long-form works fuse folklore with personal narrative, and put rigorous compositions together with fierce improvisation and, sometimes, open dialogue with the audience.
To create a rigorous, engaging suite of music singing the praises of homeopathic healing and improvisation, you need chutzpah and imagination in equal doses.
As a composer, she is often minimal, using songs to establish some general shapes and then letting improvisation do the rest of the work.
Swaths of the The Whole Thing are given over to improvisation and deconstruction, and few of its tracks conform to any recognizable verse-chorus structure.
The consensus, however, is that the filmmakers were encouraging significant improvisation from the actors, which some at Lucasfilm believed was shifting the story off course.
The Editorial Board blamed Trump for what it called a hasty strategy free improvisation that is characterized as handling of the Diplomatic opening all along.
"It was a bit of encouragement for this film and what we could do, and experiment — a lot more with improvisation," he told PageSix Tuesday.
If improvisation means using intuition and risk in the present moment, there have been few musicians who took that challenge more seriously than Mr. Taylor.
One would almost expect that artists and movie-makers would be more comfortable with improvisation than researchers, but this doesn't seem to be the case.
Members of its Olympic side grew up using plastic bottles as makeshift balls, and such improvisation is in keeping with the roots of Polynesian rugby.
Larkou is the founder of "Kyprogenia", a musical collective which draws on a fusion of traditional Cypriot music genres with jazz, classical, rock and improvisation.
The second was a quickly assembled last-minute bonus with what he called the New Unit, a free-jazz septet playing high-energy collective improvisation.
In order to meet all your little one's many needs, it often takes creativity and improvisation, and having a good sense of humor never hurts.
All these questions point to the central enigma of the Holocaust, which has variously been interpreted as a premeditated action and as a barbaric improvisation.
But if Mr. Trump injected drama and even spontaneity back into the formulaic gathering, he also tested the limits of improvisation over the last week.
His Austin veers from engagement to improvisation to damage control—trying to retain power over his pitch meeting, or his car keys—without causing offense.
Improvisation is fun and sometimes necessary, but do get a second opinion from a family member or someone who will be completely honest with you.
There are moments of frantic improvisation, but what is happening is still a ballet, with rules, and an ending, and few echoes beyond that ending.
That level of improvisation and carrying on is liberating as a filmmaker in the same way it might be to a runner in a race.
They intend to walk the first 86 miles from Canada, heading south together — the stretch Mr. Beebe, for all his improvisation, was unable to complete.
Mr. Iyer's scores tend to leave the notation sketchy, and because of improvisation his part never comes across exactly as it appears on the page.
That's the real value of "Contact High": capturing hip-hop's transition from improvisation to construction, from thrown-together fashion to stylists, from naturalism to poses.
For those who cherished the work of this inventive firebrand — a conceptualist steeped in dance, Minimalism and jazz-informed improvisation — a restoration seemed deeply implausible.
Even if the change in Hughes's birth year came from his mother, "such reinvention does connect with other kinds of black improvisation," Mr. Young said.
They'll employ stand-up, dancing, improvisation and even PowerPoint presentations to delve into why we're drawn to all looks that are dewy, slick and moist.
Swaths of the The Whole Thing are given over to improvisation and deconstruction, and few of its tracks conform to any recognizable verse-chorus structure.
So much of our personal lives can feel like desperate improvisation, but Flock reveals the scripts we consult — from novels, television, family lore and religion.
SIMONE FORTI, STEVE PAXTON AND YVONNE RAINER "Tea For Three" unites three of Judson's most revered members for an evening of performance, improvisation and interaction.
Somewhere between the hypnosis of New Age, the grounded wisdom of folk songs and the chancy interplay of jazz improvisation, you'll find the Aguas Trio.
But by the time the performance went down, I could see that people had really made a transition there, and were really open to improvisation.
Another option: a no-recipe recipe, a simple prompt to cook instinctually on a weeknight, with improvisation in your heart and speed on your mind.
"Actors are about feelings, imagination and improvisation," Mr. Guskin wrote in "How to Stop Acting" (2003), a book that laid out his principles and techniques.
He had evidently taken to heart the show's lesson that improvisation is the mother of redemption, a tenet surely to be tested by his injury.
In music, at least, improvisation sometimes gets a bad rap, usually from the precincts of classical or other formal Western styles that rely on notation.
Their not being used to the stage helps spark variations and physical improvisation that evoke the often unpredictable energy of the Cassavetes piece, she said.
Don Pullen's 1975 solo piano improvisation "Suite (Sweet) Malcolm (Part 1 Memories and Gunshots)" begins and ends as a jazz ballad, tenderly ruminative and soulful.
This John Cassavetes feature from 231 is, for better and worse, the least diluted example of his discursive style, which is often mistaken for improvisation.
Mr. Trifonov's performance was so impetuous and slyly charming that the sonata came across with striking freshness: It could have been a four-movement improvisation.
Neither Lafferty nor Colletti have professional improvisation experience and the two prepped together, meeting on weekends to drink wine, roll a camera, and do improv exercises.
Mr. Edberg is a cello professor at DePauw University, where, in addition to standard repertoire, he teaches improvisation; his website includes several clips of his work.
"Midnight Train" for example, with its simple acoustic strum, room for improvisation, and familiar melody, is a Rawlings original, but sounds just like an old standard.
The group's name, derived from the term poncilidad, which they define as "chaotic tranquility," reflects the mix of rigor and improvisation that characterizes their live sets.
And then when you get into blues music, every solo, every little drum part, that's when you send it back out into the cosmos, with improvisation.
This led to the need for a little improvisation on set in order for Pawar to memorize his lines and be able to follow Davis' direction.
What I don't know is whether that was a stock rejoinder the actor had ready for this kind of exchange, or a moment of pure improvisation.
While the restaurant won't budge from its entry level four-course menu, the structure will be less linear and there will be more room for improvisation.
These can be images reaching for the shape of the thought itself, or conversely, a rush of improvisation, and an attempt to escape from that shape.
I started with improvisation, not classically, so because of that it made me very versatile and kind of the perfect fit for these kind of gigs.
He was completely unafraid to break into a wild improvisation because he knew the energy and the ideas inside his phrasing would overwhelm any small imperfections.
Reducing the cast to three actors, Teste wielded an arsenal of techniques — video, improvisation, fourth-wall shattering asides — that closed the distance between audience and performers.
He'd done night classes in comedy improvisation, and his approach struck a chord with Unilever, which ended up buying the business for $1 billion in 2016.
"Broken Scherzo: Tripping Up, Falling Down," the second movement, is even more jumpy and fragmented, with skittish bursts that suggest both jazzy improvisation and ethereal Messiaen.
There was slow or spacious solo-piano music from various indistinct traditions; a few melodies that might have been film-soundtrack themes; a bit of improvisation.
That is Derek Leebaert's thesis in "Grand Improvisation," a dense reconstruction of events and leaders from 19353 to 19455 that draws impressively on many original sources.
And yet improvisation — having to operate in a strange culture and make changes on the fly — is what provides the career boost that everyone talks about.
The findings were the result of a clever technical improvisation, using sensors that were intended to provide engineers with information on the status of the rover.
In "Improvisation Is the Heart of Music," a wicked little tale about marriage and monotony, a husband repeats the same elaborate anecdote verbatim, over and over.
Last year Mr. Glasper drew criticism for making comments that seemed to suggest that female listeners have a narrower interest in jazz improvisation than men do.
There, a group of choreographers rejected the theatrical conventions of modern dance and ballet, proposing that pedestrian movements and improvisation were equally valid forms of performance.
Ms. Cowan said that in her piece, "Harlem Shake," the audience should listen for a passage of saxophone improvisation and catch the way the melody repeats.
Face the Music's improvisation collective, featuring some of the youngest students, will perform Composition No. 192, a ritualistic piece from Mr. Braxton's "Ghost Trance Music" series.
I always try to link all these things together, because this thing to me is an ongoing process: the study of composition and improvisation in parallel.
Noting the absence of a two-piano score, he likens the piece to an improvisation and counts himself skeptical of attempts to mount it without her.
Although "Ornations" is meticulously notated, it often has the feeling of an unhinged improvisation, with instrumental sounds augmented by vocalizations, including a few screams and growls.
" It was a last-minute improvisation, one that Bastienne Schmidt, a resident who curated the exhibition, said dovetailed with the exhibition's title, "A Sense of Place.
She could catch the essence and the vibe and the purity of improvisation, and then be able to catalog it as a place to start from.
"Yes and ..." is used in improv classes to teach actors to support their partners in improvisation by agreeing with the starting premise and continuing from there.
In 1966 he recorded an album with the Free Spirits, a short-lived rock band that mixed radio-friendly melodies with adventurous stretches of instrumental improvisation.
For many driven children of her generation, improvisation is verboten; pursuing a hobby or taking an elective outside your proven strengths could create an imperfect transcript.
Cate White shifts from working within familiar concepts and processes to risking improvisation, integrating known and unknown, private and public, controlled and free, self and other.
Because club music is so often about programming machines to perform pre-fixed musical tasks, a sense of improvisation can often be edged out of the equation.
Because there was no oven large enough for this pig, and because the animal was too big to be completely cooked on the spit, improvisation was key.
This breaking of the fourth wall is one of the easier laughs, pandering that emphasizes the reduced expectations of improvisation instead of the aspirations of scripted comedy.
They watch a soloist in the center or an encounter that looks like an aestheticized scuffle, combining the weight-sharing of contact improvisation with more aggressive intent.
What many are calling a "bomb robot" may have been an improvisation of a robot designed for bomb disposal, which only carries charges to detonate other bombs.
Still, the instrumental and jam-centric Ten East might be the truest to Arce's ideal vision of music, one born of riffage and fueled on collaborative improvisation.
There seems to be a lot of improvisation in the film, as when Zamata has to keep a straight face while Renée acts like she's Cindy Crawford.
"Comrade Díaz-Canel isn't upstart or an improvisation," Raul Castro said in a speech to the National Assembly, the government body that elects the president of Cuba.
Every day you have to get up in front of your peers and do something new: either an improvisation or a clowning thing or a Shakespeare speech.
Her enduring passion for music has led to work that, along with Jarrett's improvisation, engages with compositions by Roky Erickson, Wildbirds & Peacedrums, Sidney Barnes, and Arthur Russell.
It gave me infinite tools for improvisation, ways for playing with movement that had to do with learning about myself rather than trying to imitate someone else.
These quickly drawn outlines, it should be noted, are significantly different from the circles Heilmann makes – Korneffel seems to want to discover where improvisation might lead her.
But others saw Mr. Trump's 11th-hour move as improvisation on a major military action, and a threat that could further undermine the strained trans-Atlantic alliance.
Looking like a cross between contact improvisation and ballroom dance, the duets share a similar vocabulary of dips, bends, lunges, low lifts and smooth exchanges of weight.
Finally, Derek Leebaert's "Grand Improvisation" traces America's rise as a superpower after World War II, and argues that Britain played a bigger role than is generally acknowledged.
In it, they experiment with how bodies can let go of habits and familiar ways of moving — through both choreography and improvisation — to attain freedom and transformation.
When the high schoolers needed a break from the rigors of Composition No. 55, the adult musicians talked them through Mr. Braxton's "language music" system for improvisation.
A reworking of their 2005 production, they regard it as a search for happiness, in which mysticism and sensuality live alongside moments of improvisation and set material.
It's not quite accurate to say there are no standard rules and processes in place for impeachment but, indeed, the existing legal guidance leaves much to improvisation.
The right framing, a certain look, a bit of improvisation and some inspiring music all factor into how some of the season's most interesting scenes came together.
In the 19th-century, public séances, which were sometimes held in theaters, attracting thousands, relied on stage techniques — lighting, sound, stagehands, improvisation — to achieve their effects. Ectoplasm?
Standing on the concrete floor in semidarkness, he played one long, unbroken improvisation that defied the conventional limitations of the instrument, if not the laws of physics.
On "A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke," the pianist Vijay Iyer and the trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith work with a common language of improvisation, austere and illuminating.
"His now legendary art of improvisation was like walking a tightrope with the ever-present risk of falling," the orchestra said in a statement after his death.
The "mini stir fry," a seasonal improvisation, was made recently with fiddlehead ferns, pine nuts and tender, lime-green needles from the spring tips of spruce branches.
Ms. Deliquet inserts other material into the film's script, including excerpts from a TV series and novel that Bergman wrote first, and she allows for some improvisation.
And I decided I wasn't going to be the main performer; I was going to bring others into it, rehearse it, teach it, and think about improvisation.
Speaking to audiences, spontaneous applause (including in the middle of pieces), and on-the-spot improvisation were commonplace, with performers wooing audiences with their technical and interpretational prowess.
The horn arrangements were punchy, the bass lines funky and the rhythms infectious, but there was also room for adventurous improvisation, mellow vocal harmonies and pure pop melodicism.
Hingis won the 1997 Australian Open as a 16-year-old, not by blasting opponents off the court, but by outmaneuvering them with superior court craft and improvisation.
The Santa Claus beard thing was, in all likelihood, a random improvisation on Roiland's part, who also voices Mr. Poopybutthole as well as the show's two main characters.
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Omar Epps has been sued for negligence, assault and battery by an actress who is claiming the actor's improvisation during a scene resulted in her breaking her arm.
That's why improvisation is so important and the costume portrayal is so important, because all of those things help me to tell whatever story you want to tell.
Adaptation and improvisation, which had been such a major part of the early game where my squad was often under-equipped, began to fade out of the experience.
In the end ENDON try to release a ghost of improvisation into the basic structure of three individuals, and arrange a ritual uplift with our own Dionysos style.
Here, the performance was preceded by a recording of Mr. Eastman singing a solo improvisation on the names of the saints Joan of Arc invoked during her trial.
It was Chesley B. Sullenberger's intervention and improvisation that safely landed a crippled US Airways plane in the Hudson River in 2009, saving the lives of 155 people.
A soundscape accompanies the installation and includes an improvisation on "12 Bar Blues" interspersed with recordings of Yusef Lateef's breath and afternoon traffic outside the Detroit Public Library.
Even so, shifting AI from analyzing and learning mathematical equations to the arts—a world full of improvisation, of sudden inspiration, of human emotion—could be a challenge.
The October Revolution in Jazz & Contemporary Music was something like a State of the Union for free improvisation and avant-garde composition, and also a statement of potential.
He hit some dead ends — "Terrible!" he observed at one point — but persisted, adding handclaps (his own, sampled), a reedy synthesizer improvisation and a keyboard-simulated saxophone section.
Mr. Smith and Ms. Paquette Smith were married in 1978 and collaborated on art installations in which, Ms. Paquette Smith said, he would "play" her paintings through improvisation.
In order to keep improvisation and surprise central to his practice, in the early 203s Nozkowski began painting on prepared canvas boards that measured 16 by 20 inches.
Both raucous and exquisitely poised, the music was decked out with some broadly perceptible reference points — including traces of classical modernism, jazz improvisation and the attack of punk.
He wanted an improvisation partner, someone he could open up to and with whom he could arrange his story the way he would a song or an album.
Often posed, Leonard's pictures are always perfectly composed, but perhaps that's not the ideal way to show people playing music that depends on improvisation, on going beyond composition.
It was Seattle's ninth game of the season, and his improvisation looked akin to watching Miles Davis in full flight while the opposing defense was playing basic keys.
Obama has come to be adored but feared in the East Wing as a tough and exacting boss who has little patience for mistakes, improvisation and wasted time.
Through theater and improvisation, the program aims to improve the often-contentious relationship between the police and youths from ages 15 to 225 in black and Latino communities.
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Although the dancers (a mixture of butoh and contemporary artists) were mostly improvising, "we had provisory marks which the performers had to reach in their improvisation," Kharitonova tells Creators.
"I experiment with color through an aesthetic improvisation, each element proposes the following, and the relationship between them, itself, proposes investigative situations," Ascui tells The Creators Project over email.
I am reminded of something that Thomas Nozkowski said to me in an interview that appeared in The Brooklyn Rail in November 2010: Improvisation […] is essential to my work.
Combining a scripted show with on-the-fly moments of improvisation and customization allows the story to remain fixed, while still ensuring each participant's individual experience will be unique.
But in the early 2000s, well before many others, he was using those repetitions as a structure to contain improvisation, as well as rhythms and harmonies borrowed from pop.
Part improvisation, part installation, the work plays with the peculiar and flexible nature of time and space, just like the physics concept that its title nods to and inverts.
Then, the team made a fundamental change: instead of celebrating the dexterity of the perfectly executed solo, their game would reward the steady, low-key improvisation of rhythm guitar.
But Trump's habit of improvisation, disinterest in organized messaging, and refusal to hire key diplomatic staff is hobbling his ability to tackle the issue in a remotely effective way.
Their vision of the genre is malleable, with players drawing on, say, hip-hop or cumbia or kosmische or techno and bringing that into their world of rhythmic improvisation.
Coverdale's improvisation-heavy shows combine droning electronic textures with pipe organ and piano, and when she's not making experimental music, she's got a day job as a church organist.
Anthony Braxton Diamond Curtain Wall Trio, "Trio (Victoriaville) 2007" (Victo, 2008) An unbroken hourlong improvisation, featuring Mr. Braxton with two protégés: the cornetist Taylor Ho Bynum and Ms. Halvorson.
But in the early 1970s, well before many others, he was using those repetitions as a structure to contain improvisation, as well as rhythms and harmonies borrowed from pop.
They will be preceded by a more recent work, Courtney Bryan's "Songs of Laughing, Smiling, and Crying," which fuses sound collages drawn from YouTube with powerful, live piano improvisation.
Intended for children 5 and older, and offering an optional improvisation workshop after each Sunday afternoon performance, the show may help empower a few questioning young theatergoers, too.14streety.
Ms. Whitfield's supple voice and Mr. Greensill's dashes of improvisation reinvigorated familiar songs by Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Rodgers and Hart, and others, whose work they both considered timeless.
It was a fitting musical finale to our trip — a modern take on the improvisation we had heard in the lonely churches of what was once the Tao kingdom.
The right framing, a certain look, a bit of improvisation and some inspiring music all factored into how a few of the season's most interesting scenes came together. 10.
According to his biographers Antoine de Baecque and Noël Herpe, he was impressed by the degree to which his fellow filmmaker Jacques Rivette incorporated improvisation in a fictional framework.
At the other extreme we have improvisation, which is characterized not by constructing elaborate plans in your head, but by effectively and quickly reacting to the immediate artistic environment.
One of the show's producers was later quoted as saying that Mr. Kaufman had planned the brawl as an improvisation and that Mr. Richards had been prepared for it.
At pop-up restaurants, where chefs temporarily set up shop in a dining room, a barn or even a dorm room, dinner is an improvisation, more jazz than symphony.
Mr. Gosling was a Zorn veteran by that point: Mr. Zorn had written "Illuminations," which experiments with improvisation within a notated work, for him, and more premieres had followed.
Director Jonathan Levine said the actors did a lot of improvisation on set and that the movie sought to touch on some real life matters in a funny way.
Mr. Barney appears only in a supporting role, and he now seems especially eager to embrace collaboration and improvisation, notably via dance, a fascinating addition to his cinematic techniques.
With its emphasis on communal living, the Ciudad Abierta became a testing ground for a kind of utopian architecture, one based on observation and improvisation rather than formalist order.
According to Grant Snider, "genius" is: 215% inspiration, 213% perspiration, 10.93% improvisation, 210.9% aspiration, 20.1% contemplation, 27% exploration, 13% daily frustration, 11% imitation, 10.9% desperation, and 0.1% pure elation.
"I am upset that a pretend exercise in an improvisation, from an actual scene in the film, has been written about as if it was a real scenario," said Jolie.
Michael Attias: Renku (Saturday) Renku, a trio made up of Mr. Attias on saxophones, John Hébert on bass and Satoshi Takeishi on drums, applies an elaborative process to group improvisation.
Unfortunately, that magic seems to have been lost along the way with jokes that don't land and a backdrop that doesn't allow for Ferrell and Reilly's improvisation to take hold.
"You don't overcome the fracture by setting up a new organisation composed only of your friends," says a former South American foreign minister, who worries about the "improvisation" it embodies.
It's improvisation with intent, and while I found it seamless in practice, it requires interactors to not only be active listeners but deft readers of a participant's tone and mood.
"Everybody is very loath to admit that what we're seeing is improvisation on the fly because that sounds unprofessional and amateurish -- and it is," the former Hot Air contributor said.
Marvel's Spider-Man features the acrobatic abilities, improvisation and web-slinging that Spidey is famous for, whilst also introducing elements that we haven't seen before from a Spider-Man game.
Dan Barber, who earned his stripes at Bouley before going on to acclaim at restaurants like Blue Hill at Stone Barns, remembers the chef's craving for constant improvisation and disruption.
In Apprise magazine in 1990, he talked about improvisation as a form of resilience, an ability to change and deal with new circumstances that was indicative of the American character.
Spread across four CDs, the release chronicles Mr. Jarrett in what was then his customary format: two roughly 203-minute spans of improvisation, separated by an intermission. ECM. Nov. 4.
Basing their art on the tradition of the medieval jester and the improvisation techniques of commedia dell'arte, Mr. Fo and Ms. Rame thrilled, dismayed and angered audiences around the world.
Bear in mind, though, that it's not just the quality of your voice that's crucial, but also the ability to act — controlling tone, relating emotion, and nailing comedy and improvisation.
Mr. McFarland plans to spend more time in Denver, where he moved last year with his longtime partner, and to devote more time to composition, improvisation and solo performance projects.
"The parties are enormously important for our democracy, but they are small- and medium-sized businesses in which there is a lot of improvisation going on," Schoenbohm told the magazine.
Her improvisation, delicate and spiky as a sea urchin, led into the next piece, "Without Regrets," by which point the standard-issue big band comparison felt like a distant memory.
The Detroit aesthetic may reflect circumstances that require improvisation and patching things together from scrap, but as Harris and McGhee aptly demonstrate, the results can be nonetheless fascinating and resonant.
But for Barbara Carroll, nicknamed the first lady of jazz piano, it is a kind of philosophical scripture that balances improvisation and playful invention with a classical sense of order.
Mr. Hersch, a starkly articulate and affecting pianist, recently put out "Open Book," a solo record that comprises original compositions, covers of jazz standards and a 20-minute free improvisation.
As no two performances are the same, the show served as an extremely ephemeral experience as whimsical as the art of improvisation itself, and one witnessed by only 100 people.
There are the large, 100-person games that can take days of alternate living and require a mixture of improvisation, a deep knowledge of role-playing, and intricate organization skills.
Part concert bootleg, part hip-hop mixtape, his music — borne of a process rather than a compositional method — has the potential to open up the way musicians think about improvisation.
One of the premier — and most prolific — living American composers, Braxton continues to release reams of new music, typically drawing on improvisation and built around his own complex musical systems.
The festival included a comedy improvisation, "Thank You for Coming Out," about revealing gay identity, and a series of original cabaret songs by Maybe Burke, a transgender artist and activist.
The commitment to improvisation extends even to the instruments — he travels without a bass, preferring, like a piano player, to put himself at the mercy of what the venue provides.
It's been 217 years since Soft Machine released its first album alchemizing intrepid, jazz-influenced improvisation with rock 'n' roll fantasy, thus creating something like a blueprint for progressive rock.
Houston Sunday was a study in desperate improvisation, streets and highways turned into rivers, boats and helicopters more useful than cars, and dramatic rescues taking place virtually everywhere one looked.
Even so, to keep the timing precise, the actors had to wear earpieces during shooting—listening to their original improvisation, to match their exact rhythm, while interpreting the lines differently.
"To be a jazz musician is to express some American project, to be part of American history, to take in those rugged ideals to which improvisation is central," he said.
Instead of classical music, she taught her students to play big band jazz off lead sheets, a form of musical notation with fewer written parts and more room for improvisation.
That room for improvisation — use whatever vegetables you have, spices can vary as long as there are a lot of them — makes it perfect for the would-be home cook.
Her holistic approach to making music is a testament to the generative powers of listening, noticing, improvisation and responding to what is already here rather than seeking to overwrite it.
Guaidó has presented himself with a very clear route, well studied and without improvisation, which makes us have faith that we are on the right track to restore our democracy.
But the relationship between China and America seems important enough that, in dealing with it, America's president has decided (for now) to eschew his usual penchant for shock, awe and improvisation.
The compositions teem with vestiges of the natural world: plant, animal, water, and air, and by analogy, Olsen brings to life the creative process through tactile layerings, gesture, revision, and improvisation.
Similar to the improvisation in jazz, tap dancers also improvise but instead of relying on traditional jazz instruments like the piano, saxophone, or bass, the music comes from a dancer's feet.
Both incorporated structured improvisation, a mixing of dance styles and forms, a deep sense of play, a bold engagement with the audience, and a particular permission given to watch and witness.
After touring Setter of Unseen Snares, which felt quite mechanical as there was no improvisation whatsoever, it was like, 'Let's play a few shows for the record and call it good.
All of these variants are trying to solve the same problem: chess is a partially solved game, which makes it less about skill and improvisation, and more about memorizing existing strategies.
Like the park, larps gather a bunch of near-strangers in one place and have to slot them into semi-scripted interlocking plots that still allow room for unpredictability and improvisation.
Then there was the speech he gave in Indianapolis on the day of King's assassination—a brilliant piece of improvisation in which he quotes Aeschylus and may have quelled a riot.
He explains that his childhood in the mining and factory region of Donbass in the 1970s and '80s was characterized by deprivation, improvisation, and industrial achievement of an awe-inspiring scale.
During the performance, Fajans tells the story of the death of his father, and in a post-show talk-back, Vaughan admits the improvisation pushed him out of his comfort zone.
" John F. Harris and Matthew Nussbaum of Politico agreed, writing that the speech showed what would happen if "Trump somehow brought to heel the impulsiveness and improvisation that define his politics.
He moved to Europe, became an important new-music interpreter, and in 1966 helped found the ensemble Musica Elettronica Viva, which used widely available electronic instruments for exercises in collaborative improvisation.
This happens especially in songs like "Go!" and "Bibi the Dog," the first with a shredding guitar improvisation by Steve Vai, and both with vocals by the French singer Mai Lan.
Each known for their genre-bending improvisation, the two musicians will treat audiences to a special double bill at Public Records on Thursday — Young's first solo performance in over 10 years.
And then we will record the music and usually arrive at something very close to the way we rehearsed it, unless the goal involves improvisation of the whole or a section.
He embodied the spirit of independent filmmaking, of art through improvisation and experiment: be it using a wheelchair as a dolly in Breathless or mastering the madcap color scheme of Techniscope.
The country's opposition, which last month took control of the National Assembly for the first time in 16 years, said his appointment suggested improvisation in the government and lack of leadership.
He rightly emphasizes that long-form improvisation is a distinctly American form, but overstates the case — you see this even in his title — ignoring major figures and traditions in other countries.
With its swirling organ, boogaloo fugues and aggressively atonal guitar bursts, this extended improvisation suggests a musical showdown between the jazz guitarist Sonny Sharrock and the avant-garde German group Can.
With assigned roles and a series of unscripted scenes, the queens' acting and improvisation skills were put to the test — muscles many were eager to flex, except for Chi Chi DeVayne.
On records, he usually composes lengthy pieces full of intricate harmonic weaves, with hardly any room for improvisation — a testament to his early infatuations with jazz-rock fusion and classical music.
One notable divergence was the use of a dancing chorus, an ensemble of nine young hoofers that got its own numbers, each a mix of choreography and spots for individual improvisation.
The two men both started as performers and shared certain traits: a sly wit, an impeccable eye, a meticulous style and a blend of precision and improvisation in their directing styles.
The recent DVD release of the documentary "Lucas Debargue: To Music," includes a bonus feature of the pianist playing a 12-minute improvisation on "Caravan," by Juan Tizol and Duke Ellington.
A testament to Puerto Ricans' enduring knack for industry and improvisation, it is part hardware store and part bar, with drinks mixed next to a key-duplicating machine during happy hour.
Mr. Ocean moved constantly, but rarely in relation to the crowd — everything had the air of improvisation, the do-it-yourself feel of a warehouse show or an experimental-music room.
Back in the '70s, the only dancing we knew was solo improvisation in a crowd, with a throbbing disco pulse and strobe lights that froze us as we struck a pose.
And the climax, in classic Savall style, was a playful, gently swaying improvisation on a Renaissance "canario" dance melody, building into flurries of notes frizzling off Mr. Savall's tiny treble viol.
The doomsayers will tell you that the sport has become too slow and mechanical and low scoring, thanks to coaching that banishes improvisation and enforces deliberate, often-excruciating-to-watch play.
In 1938 he was hired to help write and appear in the union's musical show "Pins and Needles," and he soon began to develop his signature comedy style of zany improvisation.
It's a rather small ensemble, but it has the attitude of a much larger one, playing rhythmic, chantlike tunes; up-tempo pieces that fuse bebop and Latin rhythms; and free improvisation.
Ms. Oliveros was a beloved maverick, an electronic-music pioneer who turned to an earthy brand of conceptualism focused on meditative listening, improvisation and text-based "scores" that anyone could follow.
This year's edition, curated by Fogtt and Gerard Lebik, invited artists who are exploring composition, improvisation, and musical notation in ways that heighten our understanding of the potential of noise art.
After a trip to the stage and a seated improvisation with two male dancers, in which she held her own, she returned to her seat — with a balloon as a gift.
His is a cooking of improvisation: If a recipe calls for bacon drippings that you just don't have, he instructs, any cooking fat will suffice, be it lard or vegetable shortening.
The commune's residents valued ideals of material efficiency, improvisation, and nonconformity, and while the project ultimately failed, its vision left an impression on the history of 20th-century architecture and design.

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