Word: improvisationism
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This semester Geidt taught a character improvisation class, supplying masks, clothes, wigs, golf clubs, and "lots of just junk" from which students created characters for themselves.
The problem, then, is not so much that Harvard relies on graduate students to teach, but rather that it does so in an uncoordinated way. Heavy use of TFs--unlike the rest of the curriculum--is not a carefully-planned, thoroughly-discussed element of the University's educational strategy. Instead...
America is individualistic and pluralistic, alive with thousands of competing constituencies and interests, and every one of them, it seems, is flanked by a team of lawyers. Leadership is difficult in a litigious society that also tends to want everything spelled out in contracts. Legalism is the enemy of innovation...
Currently, Bloom's musical experimentation focuses on combining improvisation with live electronics and dancers. Her recent work deals specifically with the ways sound sources can be considered and altered.
Furthermore, Jazz Band alumni Fred Houn '79, who leads the Afro-Asian Music Ensemble and the Asian American Art Ensemble, has been working with a group of students this week in a Workshop Series entitled "Jazz Improvisation, (Third) World Culture and So-Called Performance Art." Tonight is the culminating concert...