Research shows that improvisation and creativity are good for the brain. In an episode of the Greater Good Science Center’s ...

2 New ANTIGONE Adaptation to Receive Free Staged Reading from No Stone Theatre Co. Kiki Mikkelsen and Ali Reed are veterans of the New York City improv scene who are working on bringing improvised ...

2 Video: Karl Josef Co sings 'Finishing the Hat' from Sunday in the Park with George at 54 Below! 3 Video: Jon-Michael Reese sings 'Last Midnight' from Into the Woods at 54 Below! Visit www.nymif.com ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "We do stupid very well," says Zach Reino, one-half of the comedy improv duo, Off Book. "But hopefully it can be stupid and ...

Music composition and improvisation together encompass the spectrum of creative decision-making that shapes musical works. Composition often unfolds through iterative planning, notation and reflection ...

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

Percussionist Adam Forman is a co-founder of Improv Spaces, a hub for improvisational and experimental music. the nonprofit is debuting the Improv Spaces Music Ensemble at its annual music festival on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Second City Touring Company will bring their celebrated improv comedy to Schenectady's free Music Haven series on July 30.

Traditional Iranian music is not based on musical scores. Instead, traditional melody types are passed down orally. In his new book “Traditional Iranian music — Orality, physicality and improvisation, ...

ROUND LAKE, N.Y. — Improv Spaces will be putting on the first annual IMPROV SPACES Music Festival, a five-day event featuring music and interdisciplinary collaborations, including dance and visual ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has made us all improvisers. Medical researchers raced to develop vaccines. Students and teachers adjusted to online classes and socially distanced learning. Collectively, we ...