BUZZZZ
Caleb Teicher & Chris Celiz
Choreography: Caleb Teicher
Music: Chris Celiz
Premiered October 1, 2019 at New York City Center’s Fall for Dance Festival

Buzzzz, featuring seven tap dancers and a live beatboxer, explores the relationship between two forms of building and breaking pattern, skirting expectation at every turn with a breadth of compositional and choreographic choice.

Caleb Teicher
Caleb Teicher is a NYC-based dancer and choreographer specializing in American dance traditions and musical collaboration. Teicher began his career as a founding member of Michelle Dorrance’s critically acclaimed tap dance company, Dorrance Dance, while also freelancing in contemporary dance (The Chase Brock Experience, The Bang Group), swing dance (Syncopated City Dance Company), and musical theater (West Side Story International Tour and London).

Since founding Caleb Teicher & Company (CT&Co) in 2015, Teicher’s creative work has expanded to engagements and commissions across the US and abroad including The Joyce Theater, New York City Center, the Guggenheim Museum (NYC and Bilbao), Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, and Lincoln Center Out of Doors. Over the next year, Caleb’s work will be presented in over a dozen cities across the United States.

Teicher is known for his choreographic collaborations with diverse musical talents: he’s created full collaborations for CT&Co with world-champion beatboxer Chris Celiz and composer/pianist Conrad Tao; performed as a soloist with the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center; recorded percussion and sang duets for television with Ben Folds; and most recently choreographed Regina Spektor’s residency on Broadway.

Caleb is the recipient of a 2019 New York City Center Choreographic Fellowship, two Bessie Awards, a 2019 Harkness Promise Award, and a 2019 NEFA National Dance Project Production Grant. His work has been featured by The New York Times, NPR, Forbes, Vogue, Interview Magazine, and most recently, as the cover of Dance Magazine’s September 2019 issue. Caleb continues to engage with dance communities as a teacher for international tap and swing dance festivals.

Chris Celiz
Hailing from New York City, Chris Celiz is a musician, educator and performer. Playing music since the age of 10, Chris has a diverse skill set and professional music experience. He has worked with such luminaries as Harry Belafonte, Bryonn Bain, Dana Leong and can be seen performing alongside some of New York City’s greatest talents. He has been competing both nationally and internationally as one of the top ranked beatboxers in North America. His most notable accomplishment is the formation of “The Beatbox House”, a conglomerate of the most talented beatboxers in the United States who look to rebrand the art form. He is the 2015 American 2v2 Champion and has been ranked as one of the top North American beatboxers.

 
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