3rd International Symposium
IMPACT: IMProvisation and Creativity In and Through Performing Arts
Creative Collaborations: Improvising the Unknown
December 3-6, 2025
Programme: https://impact.lmta.lt/programme-2025/
Location: Vilnius, Lithuania
Hosted by: Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre
Listener registration:
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The Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre is pleased to announce an international symposium titled “Creative Collaborations: Improvising the Unknown”. Scheduled for December 3-6, 2025, in Vilnius, Lithuania, the symposium aims to provide a comprehensive, interdisciplinary examination of the complex phenomena of creativity and improvisation.
This academic event is significant not only within the discourses of the humanities and the social sciences but also for professional artists and researchers. It seeks to contribute to the understanding of creativity and improvisation as fundamental components of artistic practice, thereby enabling the investigation of new forms of expression and encouraging innovation in daily artistic activities.
The symposium will feature a diverse array of scholars, artists, and practitioners from multiple disciplines, including musicology, theatre studies, sociology, and psychology. Participants from the international academic community will present research and artistic experiments that highlight the advantages of an interdisciplinary approach. A key element of the symposium is the Experimental Creative Laboratory, an innovative component that will present live improvisational artistic experiments conducted by interdisciplinary groups. These performances will be subject to critical analysis and discussion by the attending scholars and artists, offering a unique opportunity for professional development and interdisciplinary engagement. By offering a rigorous academic environment for intellectual exchange and artistic exploration, the symposium aims to make a substantive contribution to the field of interdisciplinary research and artistic practice, both in Lithuania and internationally.
Topics include but are not limited to:
- Improvisation as a methodology in the arts
- Collaborative processes across disciplines
- Improvisation in game-theatre models
- Performer–audience relationships in improvisational settings
- Between composition and improvisation
- Embodiment, intuition, and the unconscious in creative practice
- Technology and live interaction in improvisation
- Cultural, social, and political dimensions of improvisation
- Improvisation as resistance, resilience, or healing
For more information, contact bozena (dot) ciurlioniene (at) lmta (dot) lt
Organising committee:
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ramunė Balevičiūtė, Vice-Rector for Art and Research, Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre
Dr. Božena Čiurlionienė, Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre
Assoc. Prof. Mantautas Krukauskas, Head of Music Innovation Studies Centre, Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre
Dr. Bruno Pereira, Porto Polytechnic Institute’s School of Music and Performing Arts
Scientific Committee:
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ramunė Balevičiūtė, Vice-Rector for Art and Research, Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre
Prof. Dr. Lina Navickaitė-Martinelli, Chair of the Senate, Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre
Dr. Rui Penha, Vice President, The School of Music and Performing Arts ESMAE, Porto
Dr. Theodore Parker, Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre