Improv may refer to:
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Improvisation
Improvisation is the activity of making or doing something not planned beforehand, using whatever can be found. Improvisation in the performing arts is a very spontaneous performance without specific or scripted preparation. The skills of impr ...
, an act of spontaneous invention
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Improvisational theatre
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. In its purest form, the dialogue, a ...
(includes improvisational comedy)
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Musical improvisation
Musical improvisation (also known as musical extemporization) is the creative activity of immediate ("in the moment") musical composition, which combines performance with communication of emotions and instrumental technique as well as spontaneous ...
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The Improv
The Improv is a comedy club franchise. It was founded as a single venue in the Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of New York City in 1963, and expanded into a chain of venues in the late 1970s.
History
Originally, it was a ...
, a chain of U.S. comedy clubs
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The Improv (India)
''The Improv'' is an improvisational comedy show which was started in May 2012 in Bangalore, India. The show has no script and is totally improvised, as its name suggests. The audiences give suggestions, situations and scenarios to the host and t ...
, a comedy show in Bangalore
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Lotus Improv
Lotus Improv is a discontinued spreadsheet program from Lotus Development released in 1991 for the NeXTSTEP platform and then for Windows 3.1 in 1993. Development was put on hiatus in 1994 after slow sales on the Windows platform, and officially e ...
, a spreadsheet program
See also
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Improvisations (disambiguation)
Improvisations are activities, of making and creating, in the moment and in response to the stimulus of one's immediate environment.
Improvisations may also refer to:
* ''Improvisations'' (Ravi Shankar album), 1962
* ''Improvisations'' (Stéph ...
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