Where you are when you don’t know where you are is one of the most precious spots offered by improvisation. It is a place from which more directions are possible than anywhere else. Nancy Stark Smith, ...

Leslie Parker: “I think of Black Dance Improvisation as a way of approaching a dance aesthetic that gives more space for the relevance of Black and brown bodies and the histories that they bring into ...

Sun 6/12-Sun 6/19, various venues and times, information at 773-281-0824, linkshall.org, tickets at 312-369-8330, colum.edu/dancecenter, $10-$20 per show, fest passes $27-$58. The Reader is free.

If necessity is the mother of invention, the pandemic is the mother of improvisation. While many Vermonters are finding creative ways to cope during the stay-at-home order, artists who depend on human ...

Jazz artist Louis Armstrong once said, "never play a thing the same way twice." Although musical improvisation—composing new passages on the spot—is not unique to jazz, it's perhaps the genre's most ...