On the football field and on the stage, things go wrong. A missed pass, an interception, a fumbled kick… expected foibles in a game. A forgotten line, “costume malfunction,” or rainfall in an outdoor ...

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, ...

Skilled improvisers were better than musicians with limited improvisational experience at distinguishing between chords that can be used interchangeably in a piece of music and those that cannot, a ...