Acclaimed pianist/composer Conrad Tao and celebrated choreographer/dancer Caleb Teicher be part of forces for his or her revolutionary collaboration, Counterpoint, for a number of engagements this February. Counterpoint can be introduced by Movie star Sequence of Boston for 3 performances between February 7-8, on the Boston Arts Academy (BAA) Theater in Boston’s Fenway neighborhood. Movie star Sequence’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 Competition will co-present Counterpoint on February 16, as a part of the Therese M. Grojean Classical Sequence and the Vilar Winter Dance Sequence. The 7pm efficiency can 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 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 inventive 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 numerous repertoire consists of “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 Perpetually (2019), and different works.
“Conrad Tao and Caleb Teicher are extraordinary artists individually, and collectively they are going to carry an exciting alchemy to the winter Vilar Dance Sequence 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, Creative Director of the Vail Dance Competition.
Attendees may sit up for improvisation and artmaking between artists and viewers. “The efficiency is finally 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 can be connected to that,” notes Tao.
Go to the Counterpoint present web page at vilarpac.org for full programming particulars, audio and video samples, and to buy tickets. For the Movie star Sequence of Boston engagement, head to www.celebrityseries.org/productions/counterpoint.