More Forever (January 2019)
Choreography: Caleb Teicher
Music & sound: Conrad Tao

A Tap Dancer Aims Higher
With his chinchilla streak of white hair, the tap dancer and choreographer Caleb Teicher has always seemed singular. He also seemed slight, clever, offbeat. In the last three or more years, though, his voice has grown freer, larger, happier. In the fall, he presented an extensive preview of his new piece, “More Forever,” as part of the Works and Process series at the Guggenheim, where it will have its world premiere, Jan. 6-7, 2019. A collaboration with the pianist-composer Conrad Tao and six other dancers, the work is a marvelous, transporting meeting of fantasy, wit and intelligence. It extends the sonic aspects of dance theater: I was astounded by the pervasive use of release and silence at the end of phrases, the interplay between quiet and loud, between percussive and stroked footwork, the immense range of dynamics and meters within individual phrases. Stillness, silhouettes, geometries: Everything combines to make “More Forever” a new dance world of the imagination.
ALASTAIR MACAULAY
New York Times