• direct carving in stone and wood. The director Mike Leigh uses lengthy improvisations developed over a period of weeks to build characters and story lines...
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  • Look up improvisations in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Improvisations are activities, of making and creating, in the moment and in response to the...
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  • has hosted weekly improvisations based around randomly drawn trios. Vitamin S takes the form beyond music and includes improvisers from other forms such...
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    An improvised explosive device (IED) is a bomb constructed and deployed in ways other than in conventional military action. It may be constructed of conventional...
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    in 1967. They were invited to a high school and decided to do their improvisations on the war in Vietnam. On the way home in a Volkswagen bus, they were...
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    and discovered through improvisations. On the west coast, Ruth Zaporah developed Action Theatre, a physically based improvisation form that treats language...
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  • boundaries between composed material and improvisations. A great deal more time is spent on improvisations, as opposed to the themes, which become more...
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  • the group presented a performance which Steve Paxton named Contact Improvisations. They presented it in the form of a permanent afternoon practice for...
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    Improvised firearms (sometimes called zip guns, pipe guns, or slam guns) are firearms manufactured other than by a firearms manufacturer or a gunsmith...
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  • Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre is a book written in 1979 by theatre educator Keith Johnstone. The book is divided into four sections: "Status",...
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  • a great improviser himself, transcribed improvisations by Louis Vierne and Charles Tournemire. Olivier Latry later wrote his improvisations as compositions...
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  • Improvisations to Music is the first comedy album by Nichols and May. It was released on December 15, 1958, by Mercury Records. The sketches were recorded...
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    An improvised weapon is an object that was not designed to be used as a weapon but can be put to that use. They are generally used for self-defence or...
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  • 3:24 Phares, Heather. "Improvisations". AllMusic. Retrieved November 19, 2009. Wiser, Danny (4 July 2020). "INDIA: Improvisations - Ravi Shankar". 200worldalbums...
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  • it in their own improvisations. The challenge for the improviser is to repeat the form in a recognizable way, but to also improvise on it in a way that...
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  • Improvisations is a jazz album recorded in 1956, in Paris, by Stéphane Grappelli (violin), Maurice Vander (piano), Pierre Michelot (double bass) and Baptist...
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  • Improvision is a software developer based in Coventry, England. The company is the developer of Confocal, live cell imaging and image analysis software...
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  • Acoustic Improvisations was recorded in December 2005 for Neal Morse's Inner Circle fan club and is made up of guitar and piano improvisations. Some of...
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  • Applied improvisation is the application of improvisational theatrical methods in various non-theatrical fields, including consulting, training, and teaching...
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  • Improvising Artists Inc. known as IAI is a production company created by jazz pianist, Paul Bley, and video artist, Carol Goss, in 1974 for the purpose...
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  • Live and Improvised is a two compact disc live album by the band Blood, Sweat & Tears, that was originally released in 1976 as a live album entitled In...
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  • Dreams Nightmares and Improvisations is the fifth studio album by drummer Chad Wackerman, released independently in February 2012. For the first time since...
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  • recorded at the same session as Piano Improvisations Vol. 1, released the previous year. The two Piano Improvisations albums serve as a sort of bridge between...
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    Morton's solos, however, were still close to ragtime, and were not merely improvisations over chord changes as in later jazz, but his use of the blues was of...
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  • cognitive skills Improvisation can be carried out with both musical and nonmusical references. (Bruscia 1987, 10) Referential improvisations are those in...
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  • (2004) Posthuman Performance: Dancing within Cognitive Systems. [1] Reeve, Justine (2011) "Dance Improvisations". Human Kinetics. ISBN 9781450402149...
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  • also produced Piano Improvisations Vol. 2 (1972), released the following year. Scott Yanow of AllMusic described Piano Improvisations Vols. 1 & 2 as an...
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  • The Improvised Son (French: Le fils improvisé) is a 1932 French comedy film directed by René Guissart and starring Fernand Gravey, Florelle and Saturnin...
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    on July 1, 1961. Their 1958 album Improvisations to Music featured the pianist Marty Rubenstein playing improvisations to existing classical and popular...
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  • Improvision is an album by guitarist Alex Machacek, drummer Jeff Sipe, and bassist Matthew Garrison. It was recorded in April 2007, and was released later...
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