Musical Improv Games and Beyond: Improve Your Teamwork and Musicianship

Instructor: Joshua Raoul Brody (San Francisco)

This workshop for all experience levels is a deep dive into the exciting world of musical improv games! You’ll learn a mix of classic performance games, like Ding & Sing, Song Cue and Inner Song-a-logue, alongside experimental games that will help improve your teamwork skills and musicianship.

Newer musical improvisers will get the chance to learn fun new games that help you to shine, while more experienced improvisers will get to stretch out of their comfort zones and learn new exercises and genres, such as performing a short-form improvised opera.

Student Information

This workshop is open to students with some improv performance experience.

Workshop Capacity

To ensure the quality of the student experience, this workshop is capped at 14 students.

About the Instructor

Joshua Raoul Brody has been accompanying the great, the near-great, the near-near-great, and the far-great since the early 1970s. He moved to San Francisco in 1974 where he fell in with the burgeoning “comical musedy” scene. With the Rick & Ruby Show he toured opening for and accompanying Robin Williams (and landing a guest spot on Mork & Mindy). Williams introduced him to improv comedy, and he has become one of the foremost improv players in the Bay Area, music director for BATS Improv, founding member of Pulp Playhouse and True Fiction, and house band for Comedy Day, to name a few. He has also taught the craft of song improv through BATS as well as in Japan, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Ashland OR, and Stanford University. Along the way, he has accompanied artists as varied as Lily Tomlin, Tom Waits, the Residents, Florence Henderson, Nina Hagen, and many, many others.

When asked to describe himself in one word, Mr. Brody replies “Unable to follow instructions.”

Host or Publisher Bay Area Musical Improv