Articles related to "Improvisation"



Dance Movement - Mimicking Nature
This short lesson explains how to mime the dance of the Preying Mantis with students. Add sound through improvisation and capture the dance on Webcam.
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Jazz and the Brain
Jazz improvisation and its effect on the brain are explored in a new study that shows a change in the prefrontal cortex.
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Gabriela Montero Improvisations
Sing her the tune "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" and Venezuelan pianist Gabriela Montero will immediately improvise the melody into a classical-esque piece.
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Improvisations
A mascot is an artist of some sort. He needs to be creative--ready to take any situation at hand, and make it entertaining and amusing. Although this requires spontaneity, it doesn't hurt to prepare yourself ! Here's a list of possible improvisations that you just might find useful.
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Exploration of Improvisation!
Regular practice of workshops in improvisation will help to stretch your drama group, whatever age, and continue to help participants to meet new challenges in positive way, and develop self awareness.
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Needle Tatting and Improvisation
Needle tatting with sewing thread
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Site-Specific Dance and New Performance Spaces
Creativity was not the only lesson gained from site specific dance improvisation. It trains the dancer to be able to perform anywhere they can, not just in the theater.
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Birth of an American Music: Jazz to the 1920s
The birth of American Jazz through various influences is the major theme of the article. It tries to describe how American jazz evolved with various cultures under one roof...
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Blues and All that Jazz!
Let's celebrate Black History with blues and all that jazz! Synocopation and improvisation make
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Boogie Woogie, Part I
Boogie Woogie basics
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Boogie Woogie, Part III
How to play boogie woogie.
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Boogie Woogie, Part IV
Continuation of how to play boogie woogie.
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Boogie Woogie, Part V
Part V of a series on playing Boogie Woogie
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Chord Symbols, Part I
The basics of reading chord symbols and building chords from them.
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Chord Symbols, Part II
Continuation of Chord Symbols, Part I
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Listening is the Key to Playing Jazz and Blues Styles
How does one learn to improvise? To play jazz or blues? Where do you start. This article will get you started.
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Ragtime
The article traces the mix of Ragtime with jazz. It gives a description of the elements that were exchanged between Ragtime and Jazz and the differences between the two.
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Teachers...perhaps a musical theatre drama class? Part 1
A sample guide to developing a musical theatre drama class - part 1...warm ups.
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What is Jazz?
The article describes the three main elements of jazz in detail that were mentioned in the earlier articles. Secondly it also provides examples that act as sort of tutorials and help in understanding the concept of <I>syncopation</I> and improvisation especially. ,The article describes the three main elements of jazz in detail that were mentioned in the earlier articles. Secondly it also provides examples that act as sort of tutorials and help in understanding the concept of <I>syncopation</I> and improvisation especially.
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Ya Gotta Listen!
Jazz samples from the web.
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How We Spend Class Time: Choreography or Improvisation?
So many things to learn, so little time! Different teachers use different approaches to teaching their belly dancing classes. See how yours compares!
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Sanford Meisner: A Study in Living
In the Meisner method of acting you must delve into your most private self to discover hidden emotional treasures; then rend your self and expose them for all to see.
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Intro - Impro! A Workshop for a New Drama Group - Part 2.
In Part 1 of this article, we introduced improvisation gradually by working the group as a whole, discovering through movement and imagination, drama workshops that help to develop focus and at the same time, build the unity of our drama group. Part 2 of the article takes those things further, by progressing the workshop to include the use of music as a stimuli, stillness, and bringing in simple lines.
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Intro - Impro! A Workshop for a New Drama Group - Part 1.
Forming a brand new drama group is both exciting and daunting. Where do you begin? How do you get your drama workshops to be interesting enough to hold your groups attention? By using simple methods and techniques that will help you to quickly merge the group into the closest and friendliest new drama company, ever! This article can help you with those very first workshops, you can use the ideas contained within it or adapt the ideas to suit you. The techniques may help you plan a constructive workshop which you can then follow up as you develop your own methods. The article explores movement, drama, sound as a stimuli, and focus work.
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Listening to jazz
The article gives some guidance to those want to start listening to jazz. It tries to help those who find every jazz number to be the same. This article helps them to differentiate the basic differences that might help a beginner to understand jazz.
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Movement! The Universal Expressive Language! Part 2.
Following on from last week's article<a ref="http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/10046/62103">Part 1</a> where we looked at introducing your Community Drama group to dynamics, and workshops to include the use of space, this weeks article explores further the discovery of body and space.
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Pen to Page to Stage!
Yes! After devising and improvising, you and your drama group are ready to take those first exciting steps in creating a short workshop performance script....
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Street Jam
Dancing in the middle of rush hour traffic? Laraine Goodman brings a different kind of jam to a New York street.
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The Role of the Specialists - The Director
This week's article continues along the organisational line and explores the role of the Director.
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Your first Performance! - Part 2 - Planning and Production
Following on from last weeks article, "Devising the Play", now we explore the twenty or twenty three weeks or so running up to performance.
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'Straight Face' by Nigel Hawthorne
Nigel Hawthorne's autobiography reveals a down-to-earth actor prepared to work diligently towards success.
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Holiday Writing & Drama for Kids
Holiday and cold weather writing starters and drama ideas for elementary and middle school. Language arts teaching lesson tips for teachers and homeschooling families.
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Learning to Evaluate Others
Gifted students can assume another identity in learning both how to evaluate others and how to receive constructive criticism.
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Parkour: Maximizing Body and Mind
Many youth across the globe are turning to "parkour" as a means to healthy bodies and fit minds.
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Role-Playing to Develop Confidence
By role-playing specific kinds of characters, gifted students can learn both how to evaluate others and how to receive criticism themselves.
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The Grateful Dead: Rock Legends
The Grateful Dead's reputation as a leading psychedelic rock band remains unchallenged. San Francisco's best-loved people's band gave us a huge legacy of great rock music
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"Recipes" for Teaching Music!
As far as lessons go, what works for me, may or may not work for you, but here are some thoughts on how I go about laying out my ideas for the week, month and semester. Hopefully, some of you will find them helpful.
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a quick reference to jazz
The article is a sort of quick guide to jazz. It gives a brief introduction about jazz followed by the essentials of jazz mainly <I>Swing, Improvisation and Distinctive Voices</I>. A brief list of all time jazz greats and their hit recordings will give the reader a good starting point.
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Miles Over Midsummer Commons
The late Miles Davis is one my favorite jazz artists. To hear his trumpet, especially his solos, is to move deeply within one's soul. In fact, he is also one of the great innovators in musical history. Here's a semi-autobiographical, but fictional exchange of letters written while serving in the U.S. Army about Miles, English friends and old loves.
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Spolin Part 2
Notes and Inspiration from IMPROVISATION FOR THE THEATER
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Who Were You?
Following on from previous articles, Intro - Impro! A Workshop for a New Drama Group - Part 1. and Intro - Impro! A Workshop for a New Drama Group - Part 2., this article develops these workshops further and encourages spontaneity, creating characters a using what's known in the theatre as "a little bit of business" as stimuli.
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Your first Performance! - Part 1 - Devising the Play
The first performance given by any Drama Group or Community Theatre company is one of the most exciting experiences for everyone, and a very proud moment of collective achievement! This article covers devising your new play, following up in Part 2 next week, with an article covering producing it.
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