Conrad Tao and Caleb Teicher collaborate on ‘Counterpoint’- Dance Informa Journal

Acclaimed pianist/composer Conrad Tao and celebrated choreographer/dancer Caleb Teicher be a part of forces for his or her modern collaboration, Counterpoint, for a number of engagements this February. Counterpoint will likely be introduced by Movie star Collection of Boston for 3 performances between February 7-8, on the Boston Arts Academy (BAA) Theater in Boston’s Fenway neighborhood. Movie star Collection’s distinctive partnership with BAA permits it to be one of many few presenters to make the most of the college’s state-of-the-art theater.

Following this, the Vail Valley Basis’s Vilar Performing Arts Heart and Vail Dance Pageant will co-present Counterpoint on February 16, as a part of the Therese M. Grojean Classical Collection and the Vilar Winter Dance Collection. The 7pm efficiency will likely be a harmonic, rhythmic and theatrical counterpoint between the 2 artists as they map out constellations between their disparate traditions, drive the creativeness and open the guts.  

Counterpoint highlights this rising duo’s distinct creative practices — Tao’s virtuosic piano efficiency and Teicher’s groundbreaking faucet choreography — and brings them right into a shared expression that bridges their particular person inventive capacities. Tao and Teicher discover separate however interdependent expressions by way of harmonic, rhythmic and theatrical interaction throughout all kinds of musical genres. 

This system’s stylistically numerous repertoire contains “Aria” from J.S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations, Artwork Tatum’s stride piano rendition of “Cherokee,” Schöenberg’s “Walzer” from 5 Piano Items, Op. 23, Gershwin’s iconic Rhapsody in Blue organized for solo piano, excerpts from Tao’s rating for the artists’ earlier collaboration Extra Endlessly (2019), and different works.

“Conrad Tao and Caleb Teicher are extraordinary artists individually, and collectively they’ll carry an exciting alchemy to the winter Vilar Dance Collection with Counterpoint. I can’t wait to share their brilliance with our audiences within the Vail Valley with this to not be missed efficiency,” notes Damian Woetzel, Inventive Director of the Vail Dance Pageant. 

Attendees may sit up for improvisation and artmaking between artists and viewers. “The efficiency is finally a dialog between the totally different artwork types of music and dance, our totally different devices of piano and faucet dance, and the totally different traditions which might be hooked up to that,” notes Tao.