Counterpoint is a collaboration between pianist and composer Conrad Tao and choreographer and dancer Caleb Teicher. The duo explore the dichotomy of their different perspectives and artistic practices, expanding their individual expressive capacity through a collective experience. Harmonic, rhythmic, and theatrical counterpoint between the artists seeks to map out constellations linking their disparate traditions, driving the imagination and opening the heart. The stylistically diverse music of Counterpoint includes the Aria from Bach’s Goldberg Variations, Art Tatum’s demented stride piano, Arnold Schoenberg’s ironic take on the Viennese waltz, a delicate miniature from Tao and Teicher’s More Forever, and threading it all together, a work that bridges traditions, approaches, and styles—Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Tao and Teicher’s earlier work, More Forever, is a Bessie Award-winning, New York Times critic’s pick which was lauded for “constantly extending the sonic aspects of dance.”

CALEB TEICHER specializes in musically-driven dance traditions and interdisciplinary collaboration. Their work has been presented at venues including The Joyce Theater, New York City Center, the Guggenheim Museum, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, and Lincoln Center. Caleb is the recipient of a 2019 New York City Center Choreographic Fellowship, a 2019 Harkness Promise Award, a 2019 NEFA National Dance Project Production Grant, and two Bessie Awards. Their work has been featured by The New York Times, NPR, Forbes, Vogue, Interview Magazine, on the cover of Dance Magazine, and on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert alongside Regina Spektor.

CONRAD TAO has appeared worldwide as a pianist and composer, and has been dubbed a musician of “probing intellect and open-hearted vision” by The New York Times. Tao is both a recipient of a prestigious Avery Fischer Career Grant, and a Gilmore Young Artist. His 18-19 season opened with the World Premiere of his composition, Everything Must Go, commissioned and performed by the New York Philharmonic. He also makes his performance debuts with the Los Angeles Philharmonic under Dudamel, the New York Philharmonic under Jaap van Zweden, and the Cleveland Orchestra under Jahja Ling. In Europe he returns to the Swedish Radio Symphony under Susanna Mälkki and Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia with Antonio Pappano.