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Adults $25
Students & Youth $10

Part of Hancher's Infinite Dream festival

Part of Hancher's 52nd season

Music and movement push, pull, and come together in a quirky, thrilling collaboration.

Pianist/composer Conrad Tao and dancer/choreographer Caleb Teicher explore harmonic, rhythmic, and theatrical counterpoints through a striking blend of sound and movement. Built around music both magnificent and idiosyncratic — including work by Bach, Schoenberg, Tatum, Ravel, and more — Counterpoint is threaded together by Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. A cherished piece of the American songbook, Rhapsody in Blue celebrates its centennial in 2024.

“[Counterpoint] demands such a high level of presence and such a close attentiveness to one another…[T]he interpretation is actually taking flight anew for every single show.” — San Diego Tribune

PROGRAM:
Johann Sebastian BACH: Aria from the Goldberg Variations, BWV 988
Conrad TAO/Caleb TEICHER: Improvisation
Arnold SCHOENBERG: Five Piano Pieces, op. 23: V. Walzer
Ray NOBLE/Bud POWELL/Art TATUM: “Cherokee”
Charles “Honi” COLES/Brenda BUFALINO: The Coles and Bufalino Soft Shoe
Johannes BRAHMS: Intermezzo in E major, op. 116/4
Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART/David PARKER: Song and Dance, based on Mozart’s Sonata in A major, K.331: III. Allegretto “Alla Turca”
Conrad TAO/Caleb TEICHER: Swing 2 from More Forever
George GERSHWIN: Rhapsody in Blue, arr. for solo piano
Maurice RAVEL: Sonatine: II. Mouvement de Menuet
Johann Sebastian BACH: Aria from the Goldberg Variations, BWV 988

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