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

Acclaimed pianist/composer Conrad Tao and celebrated choreographer/dancer Caleb Teicher be part of forces for his or her modern collaboration, Counterpoint, for a number of engagements this February. Counterpoint shall 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 varsity’s state-of-the-art theater.

Following this, the Vail Valley Basis’s Vilar Performing Arts Middle and Vail Dance Competition 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 shall 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 center.  

Counterpoint highlights this rising duo’s distinct inventive 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 artistic capacities. Tao and Teicher discover separate however interdependent expressions by harmonic, rhythmic and theatrical interaction throughout all kinds of musical genres. 

This system’s stylistically various 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 Eternally (2019), and different works.

“Conrad Tao and Caleb Teicher are extraordinary artists individually, and collectively they’ll deliver an exhilarating 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 Competition. 

Attendees can even look ahead to improvisation and artmaking between artists and viewers. “The efficiency is in the end a dialog between the completely different artwork types of music and dance, our completely different devices of piano and faucet dance, and the completely different traditions which might be connected to that,” notes Tao.