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  2. Improvisation - Wikipedia

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    Techniques of improvisation are widely used in training for performing arts or entertainment; for example, music, theatre and dance. To "extempore" or "ad lib" is basically the same as improvising. Colloquial terms such as "playing by ear", "take it as it comes", and "making it up as [one] goes along" are all used to describe improvisation.

  3. Musical improvisation - Wikipedia

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    Throughout the eras of the Western art music tradition, including the Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, and Romantic periods, improvisation was a valued skill. J. S. Bach, Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt, and many other famous composers and musicians were known especially for their improvisational skills. Improvisation might ...

  4. Romanticism - Wikipedia

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    Romanticism (also known as the Romantic movement or Romantic era) was an artistic and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century. The purpose of the movement was to advocate for the importance of subjectivity , imagination , and appreciation of nature in society and culture in response to the Age of ...

  5. Improvisational theatre - Wikipedia

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    Swedish actors performing in theatresports, a competitive form of improv. Improvisational theatre, often called improvisation or improv, is the form of theatre, often comedy, in which most or all of what is performed is unplanned or unscripted, created spontaneously by the performers.

  6. Performing arts - Wikipedia

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    Bharata Muni (fl. 5th–2nd century BC) was an ancient Indian writer best known for writing the Natya Shastra of Bharata, a theoretical treatise on Indian performing arts, including theatre, dance, acting, and music, which has been compared to Aristotle's Poetics. Bharata is often known as the father of Indian theatrical arts.

  7. Romantic ballet - Wikipedia

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    The Romantic ballet is defined primarily by an era in ballet in which the ideas of Romanticism in art and literature influenced the creation of ballets. The era occurred during the early to mid 19th century primarily at the Théâtre de l'Académie Royale de Musique of the Paris Opera Ballet and Her Majesty's Theatre in London .

  8. Outline of theatre - Wikipedia

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    Historic Outdoor Forest Theater in Carmel, California, at sunset. The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to theatre: . Theatre – the generic term for the performing arts and a usually collaborative form of fine art involving live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event (such as a story) through acting, singing, and/or dancing before a ...

  9. Impromptu - Wikipedia

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    Alexander Scriabin is known to have written at least nine impromptus for the piano in his early period. Jean Sibelius composed six impromptus for piano op. 5 (1893) The impromptu genre remained popular all throughout the 19th century and was prominent throughout the romantic era.