Zeldin's creative process is rather like Mike Leigh's: he and his cast shape characters, then find a narrative through improvisation.
Whether they are old-fashioned narratives, playful improvisations or comic-strip-like tales told in pictures, these stories force us to re-evaluate that old chestnut "Character is destiny".
Netprov (networked improvisation narrative) is a new creative writing form created by Rob Wittig and Mark C. Marino.
The paintings are packed to bursting with narrative action, graphic improvisation and echoes of artists like Barry McGee, Chris Johannson, Lari Pittman and R. Crumb.
Narrative dimensions of improvisation were studied through activities of Orff-Schulwerk, the specific music-movement education approach which, apart from music activities, puts great emphasis on development of social competences.
But, for actors who can't touch their toes and look bad in cowboy hats, there was a more promising notice: a casting call for people "skilled in improvisation, narrative development, and working in intimate settings.... Professional bartending experience preferred".
An "innovation incubator" modeled on business "incubators" designed with the help of "learning methodologies such as innovative methods to generate creative ideas, ideas for transforming one STEM idea to others, drawing on visual and graphical ideas, improvisation, narrative writing and the process of using innovative visual displays of information for creating visual roadmaps".
The show, Friday night at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center here, which began with a set from the A-Zamar choir from Rahway, N.J., became a fascinating example of what precision bandleading, narrative connectivity, musical intelligence, improvisation, spiritual grace and the power of the voice can do when the body has limitations.
Roberts's alto sax squawked and swooped and went deep into ecstatic free jazz territory, but there was always a narrative thread linking her improvisations that kept the audience enraptured.
This interactive video installation combines interactive technology, screen media, performance improvisation and non-linear narrative construction to unfix stereotypical narratives of gendered and racialized bodies.
