Workshop: Genre in Musical Improv

Workshop Description: In this intermediate musical improv workshop, Dan Reitz will lead students through ways of identifying and executing genre through character, story and song style, leaning into musical tropes while creating fresh, exciting musical improv! An accompanist will provide live music during workshop exercises.

Workshop Length: 2 hours
Prerequisite: Improv experience required (Improv 201 or the equivalent); musical improv experience preferred.

What Should I Bring? Wear comfy clothes and closed-toe shoes fit for movement. Please bring a notebook and pen/pencil. Bring a full water bottle.

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About the Instructor: Dan Reitz is the founder and creative director of Buffalo Improv House and a 24-year veteran of improv comedy. In New York City, he was the musical director or featured performer with several popular improv comedy shows, including the award-winning Your Love, Our Musical, Baby Wants Candy, and Blank! The Musical. He has been featured on multiple episodes of Off Book: The Improvised Musical Podcast starring Zach Reino and Jessica McKenna, and he wrote a couple songs with Robert Smigel for Leo, the recently released kids movie by Happy Madison productions and Netflix Animation.
Dan is the co-founder of Zamboni Revolution, Syracuse University's improv comedy troupe. Before the pandemic, he taught improv and ensemble comedy at Sarah Lawrence College, was on the faculty at the Magnet Theater and Peoples Improv Theater, and performed regularly at those theaters and also the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater, the Brooklyn Comedy Collective, and Caveat NYC. His other improv comedy credits include the Edinburgh Fringe, the Annoyance Theater, ComedySportz NYC, the Williamstown Theater Festival, the SteelStacks Improv Festival, Comic Con NYC, and the New York Comedy Festival. He's also a trombone and piano player who can be seen around Buffalo and NYC, and on faculty in the music department at SUNY University at Buffalo.

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