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, ...

Being professionally trained for years in performing arts, Hendersonville's Emily Swindal never knew when she began her career path that she'd find the most joy in portraying silly characters, ...

Given what Mozart initially improvised in his head and what he later wrote out are one and the same, the listener will derive equal satisfaction listening to Mozart spontaneously invent at the piano, ...

Can Zohran Mamdani's improv experience help him be an effective leader? Here are three leadership skills that improv can help ...

New research shows jazz improvisation relies on shifting brain networks as musicians move from memory to creative freedom.

Makaya McCraven is helping push jazz forward, writes Ammar Kalia, as the drummer and producer outlines the radically creative process at the core of his music and performance. In the room is where it ...

If last year taught us anything, it’s that planning can only get us so far. What’s the cliche? “The best-laid plans…” and then people trail off ominously. Yep, that was last year if you were a teacher ...

Improv comedy routines are made up on the spot by the comic actors: dialogue, setting, action, story and characters. Landry’s theater sits on Freret Street. An early adopter of the now bustling ...