ABSTRACT
Georg Bertram approaches the ontology of improvisational performances through the innovative notion of “norm in statu nascendi.” Thereby he argues that, by definition, in spite of the possible employment of existing material or stylistic patterns, improvisational performances do not follow pre-constituted norms; rather, they develop their own specific, and therefore autonomous, normativity through different kinds of interactions in and during the interactions developed in the course of the performance.
