Creativity and improvisation occupy a central place in artistic research, allowing artists to explore ideas through spontaneous experimentation and intuitive decision-making. This perspective emphasizes the importance of process rather than outcome, highlighting discovery, flexibility, and the development of new artistic insights.
The project “Improvisation and Creativity in the Performing Arts” is currently being developed:
The project “Improvisation and Creativity in the Performing Arts” aims to comprehensively investigate the interrelations between improvisation and creativity by employing interdisciplinary research approaches. Artistic creativity is one of the key components shaping an artist’s identity and the uniqueness of their work. Research into artistic creativity and the possibilities of its development must take into account the significantly changing understanding of creativity over recent decades, as well as the new challenges arising from technological development, particularly artificial intelligence. This shift has been strongly influenced by advances in cognitive science and artistic research. Only the combination of different methodologies can help reveal the complexity of the phenomenon of creativity. Research conducted so far by scholars and artist-researchers at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre (LAMT) suggests that improvisation has a significant impact in several areas: the phase of idea generation; the public performance of a work; maintaining the dynamics of the relationship between performer and audience; the educational process of performing artists. LAMT researchers, together with partners in Portugal, have initiated the creation of an informal research platform that has already attracted interest from scholars and artist-researchers from the United States, the United Kingdom, Greece, Denmark, and Estonia. The project will provide significant impetus for developing this field of research, which is important both for academia and the artistic community, by bringing together researchers from the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and artistic research.
