Improv Workshop & Jam | Pay What You Can

Schedule

Thu Jan 30 2025 at 07:00 pm to Thu Mar 06 2025 at 09:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Visitor Information Centre | Waterloo, ON

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Improv workshops taught by Ben Gorodetsky, followed by a comedy jam! All experience levels welcome.
About this Event

Pinch presents:

Improviser, director, and UWaterloo instructor Ben Gorodetsky is offering a 2 hour improv workshop & jam.

Improv builds confidence, teaches storytelling, improves listening and collaboration, and allows you to be present in the moment. Taking an improv class is like supercharging your creative brain!

The 90 minute workshop portion will be followed by a 30 minute improv jam facilitated by Ben, exploring short form and long form improv games for a fun and immersive approach to collaborative comedy.

All skill levels welcome!


7:00-8:30pm: Workshop

8:30-9:00pm: Jam

Pay what you can! ($20 suggested, but no one turned away)


This workshop will take place at The Waterloo Visitor Information Centre | 10 Father David Bauer Dr, Waterloo


About the instructor:
Ben Gorodetsky is an improviser, director, and educator based in Kitchener, Ontario. They are curator and host of KW monthly mainstays: Pinch Cabaret and Together We're Boisterous Comedy. Ben has performed, taught, and directed improvisation at The Magnet Theatre (NYC), Out of Bounds Comedy (Austin), UCB (LA), Highwire Comedy (Atlanta), English Lovers (Vienna), IGLU (Ljubljana), FERIIR (Reunion Island), Bad Dog (Toronto), and Blind Tiger (Vancouver). His performance work has been presented by The Art Gallery of Ontario, CAFKA, Lumen Fest, Movement Research at Judson Church, The Tank NYC, Mile Zero Dance, Brian Webb Dance Company, Expanse Festival of Movement Arts, Rubaboo Festival, Guelph Dance Festival, SpringWorks, and the Gas Station Arts Centre. They are creator and executive producer of TV series "My Pet Ate What?" for CTV/Bell Media. Ben is the former Associate Artistic Director of Rapid Fire Theatre a nominee for a Canadian Comedy Award. They teach at UWaterloo and hold an MFA from Brooklyn College-CUNY and a BFA from the University of Alberta.

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Visitor Information Centre, 10 Father David Bauer Drive, Waterloo, Canada

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