{"id":168,"date":"2010-06-23T15:01:12","date_gmt":"2010-06-23T22:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ups.edu\/studentlife\/?p=168"},"modified":"2010-06-23T15:01:12","modified_gmt":"2010-06-23T22:01:12","slug":"is-improvisation-only-appreciated-by-performers-of-the-craft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studentlife\/2010\/06\/23\/is-improvisation-only-appreciated-by-performers-of-the-craft\/","title":{"rendered":"Is improvisation only appreciated by performers of the craft?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Performers<\/em> meaning people \u201cof the craft\u201d\u2026 Certainly improvisation is <em>especially <\/em>appreciated by performers of their specific\u00a0craft (I\u2019m thinking\u00a0jazz improv) but audience members (or listeners) get enjoyment out of it too\u2026<\/p>\n<p><em>Caveat: <strong>Are<\/strong> people as resistant to watching dance improvisation as I think? Or am I setting up a false barrier to argue against? Whether or not it exists,\u00a0setting up a resistance\u00a0is forcing\u00a0me to make a\u00a0case for improvisation\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p>From my\u00a0experience,\u00a0in general people are more open to listening to jazz improv than\u00a0witnessing dance improv\u2026\u00a0I suspect\u00a0this is\u00a0because they are less exposed to\/familiar with dance than jazz and are therefore more <em>un<\/em>comfortable with the improv dancer than the jazz performer\u2014in jazz they know more what to expect.\u00a0They are more willing to trust a performer in a\u00a0performance that\u00a0is \u2018unplanned\u2019 if they have a general structure to\u00a0lean on.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!-- more -->This leads me to believe that maybe\u00a0a person\u2019s comfort with improvisation\u00a0just come down to personal taste in art: however much someone wants to move\u00a0outside the expected pattern or structure is how much they will enjoy the experience of witnessing (well-done, intentional) improv. But\u2026 I hope it\u2019s not that easy to explain away.<\/p>\n<p>::I want to make clear\u00a0the difference between improvising out of necessity (my piece was not prepared well enough, music or dance) and improvising with intention (what\u00a0I am interested in), where part of the thrill of witnessing the performance is\u00a0its \u201cliveness,\u201d being with the performer as they approach and tread on the raw\u00a0cusp of their\u00a0human ingenuity.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>This conversation will be pertinent to my argument for blues dancing, which, in its ideal state (for me) is the utmost form of improvisation; it is the raw ideas of both dancers responding to the external input of the music, and the external\u00a0input of each other.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Performers meaning people \u201cof the craft\u201d\u2026 Certainly improvisation is especially appreciated by performers of their specific\u00a0craft (I\u2019m thinking\u00a0jazz improv) but audience members (or listeners) get enjoyment out of it too\u2026 Caveat: Are people as resistant to watching dance improvisation as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studentlife\/2010\/06\/23\/is-improvisation-only-appreciated-by-performers-of-the-craft\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leah-vendl-11"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studentlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studentlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studentlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studentlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studentlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studentlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studentlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studentlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studentlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}