Improvisation on a triple theme: Creativity, Jazz Improvisation and Communication

Abstract

his paper focuses on jazz improvisation, and how this activity seems to create optimal conditions for creativity to unfold. It also deals with how improvisation may be used as a pedagogical strategy in the dialogic aspects of human communication. As such it is a brief introduction to a very complex and largely unexplored field and an implicit argumentation for increased research based on interdisciplinary perspectives. The form of this presentation aims to be improvisational, and accordingly touches on a wide range of phenomena more or less related to the main themes.