The Vail Valley Foundation’s Vilar Performing Arts Center and Vail Dance Festival will co-present the duo of pianist Conrad Tao and tap dancer Caleb Teicher in “COUNTERPOINT” on Feb. 16 as part of the Therese M. Grojean Classical Series and the Vilar Winter Dance Series.
This unique pairing between the two critically acclaimed artists explores the dichotomy of their different perspectives and artistic practices, expanding their individual expressive capacity while taking the collaborative performance between dancer and musician to the next level. The 7 p.m. performance will be a harmonic, rhythmic and theatrical counterpoint between the two artists as they map out constellations between their disparate traditions, drive the imagination and open the heart.
“Conrad Tao and Caleb Teicher are extraordinary artists individually, and together they will bring a thrilling alchemy to the winter Vilar Dance Series with ‘COUNTERPOINT.’ I can’t wait to share their brilliance with our audiences in the Vail Valley with this not to be missed performance,” said Damian Woetzel, artistic director of the Vail Dance Festival.
The evening will include a range of stylistically diverse music including selections from Ravel, Bach, Schoenberg, Mozart, Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” as well as contemporary compositions, interpretations, and selections by Tao and Teicher including “More Forever,” a Bessie Award-winning, New York Times Critic’s Pick, which was lauded for “constantly extending the sonic aspects of dance.”
Attendees can also look forward to improvisation and artmaking between artists and audience. “The performance is ultimately a conversation between the different art forms of music and dance, our different instruments of piano and tap dance, and the different traditions that are attached to that,” notes Tao. Visit VilarPAC.org for more information and to purchase tickets.
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