Caleb Teicher, tap dance

Conrad Tao, piano

COUNTERPOINT 

Counterpoint is the latest collaboration between pianist and composer Conrad Tao and choreographer and tap dancer Caleb Teicher, last seen together on the Series in More Forever (2020). In this dynamic duet performance, the artists engage in a mesmerizing dialogue of harmonic, theatrical, and rhythmic interplay, bridging their disparate traditions and creating a collective experience that fires the imagination and opens the heart. 

Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, itself a union of styles, threads through the program’s other musical selections, including the Aria from Bach’s Goldberg Variations, Art Tatum’s otherwordly stride piano, Schoenberg’s ironic take on a Viennese waltz, and a delicate miniature from Tao’s score for More Forever. 

Through it all, Tao and Teicher will dazzle you with their virtuosity and audacity, and will surprise you with the magic they find in the dialogue between their art forms.

Enhance your experience

There will be an artist talkback and audience Q&A immediately following the Saturday matinee performance. Please join us for this 20-minute conversation moderated by Maura Tighe, Artistic Director of Boston Arts Academy.

Musical selections

J.S. Bach | Aria from the Goldberg Variations, BWV 988
Conrad Tao & Caleb Teicher | Improvisation
Arnold Schoenberg | "Walzer" from Five Piano Pieces, Op. 23
Ray Noble / Bud Powell / Art Tatum | "Cherokee"
Charles "Honi" Coles & Brenda Bufalino | "The Coles and Bufalino Soft Shoe"
Johannes Brahms | Intermezzo in E Major, Op. 116, no. 4
W. A. Mozart / David Parker | "Song and Dance," based on the third movement of
     Mozart's Sonata in A Major, K.331: Allegretto "Alla Turca"
Conrad Tao & Caleb Teicher | "Swing 2" from More Forever
George Gershwin | Rhapsody in Blue, arr. for solo piano
Maurice Ravel | "Mouvement de menuet" from Sonatine 
J.S. Bach | Aria from the Goldberg Variations, BWV 988

The 2024/25 Dance Series is generously supported by
Leslie & Howard Appleby, Crescendo Donor Advised Fund, and Royal Little Family Foundation.

The Saturday 2:00 PM performance of Caleb Teicher & Conrad Tao is generously supported by
Eleanor & Frank Pao.

Support is provided by the 
through its ArtsAmplified initiative.


Additional support is provided by the Amy Lam Fund for Creative Performance.

This performance is made possible in part by support from Celebrity Series' LIVE PERFORMANCE! Arts for All Innovation Funds.