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Onward Willow Workshop Profile

Rebecca Caines, Ellen Waterman

Published: 2010-08-25

VIDEO: Ellen Waterman and Rebecca Caines discuss an outreach project involving the community organization Onward Willow and explain some of the social and creative benefits of encouraging people to improvise in an inclusive, non-judgmental atmosphere.

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Improvisation implies a deep connection between the personal and the communal, self and world. A “good” improviser successfully navigates musical and institutional boundaries and the desire for self-expression, pleasing not only herself but the listener as well.

– Rob Wallace