Everything important that has happened or is happening takes the route of the American rhizome – Dolce and Gabbana 2004, A Thousand Mesas
An Empirical Definition
The absence of an empirical definition of what is meant by improvisation  has been an obstacle to conceptual clarification.
Expanding Descartes
where pure noetic moments reside
On the other hand, however, noesis can be also divided into a dynamic side, where pure noetic moments reside, and the passive side of hyletic data.-Â Kosowski, Lukasz.
Phenomenology & Mind : Noema and Thinkability : An Essay on Husserl’s Theory of Intentionality. Munchen, DEU: Walter de Gruyter, 2013. ProQuest ebrary. Web. 21 December 2015.
Copyright © 2013. Walter de Gruyter. All rights reserved.
To paraphrase Duke paraphrasing Quantz
An increase in the number of people performing reduces the proportionately the freedom to improvise – Quantz
Quantz, Johann Joachim. On Playing the Flute. Edited with introduction and notes by Edward R. Reilly. New York: The Free Press, 1966.(First German edition by Johann Friedrich Voso, Berlin, 1752.)
A bias against Improvisation?
Houston-Jones’ choreography, while rooted in improvisation, develops the themes of connections that never quite happen, grappling and wrestling that seem inconsequential and ineffective, and support that disappears.
Why use the word while?Â
Homogeneity
if we are so varied, why are our politicians so homogenous?
Oh, the Places you’ll go
This means that every act that is composed of A, is also composed of A’s predecessor and successor. – Phenomenology & Mind : Noema and Thinkability : An Essay on Husserl’s Theory of Intentionality by Lukasz Kosowski pg 67.
in other words:Â Where you are is determined by where you have been and determines where you can go.