Caleb Teicher

Caleb Teicher is a New York City-based performer, choreographer, and director regarded widely in the performing arts as a leading voice in interdisciplinary collaboration.

Teicher began their career as a founding member of Michelle Dorrance’s critically acclaimed tap dance company, Dorrance Dance, while also freelancing as a contemporary dancer, musical theater performer, and swing dancer. In 2015, Caleb shifted their creative focus towards concert dance work through Caleb Teicher & Company which led to commissions and presentations at some of America's most esteemed performing arts venues: Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center (D.C.), Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, The Music Center (L.A.), New York City Center, The Joyce Theater, and countless others.

Collaborations with celebrated musicians/composers followed, including: choreographing Regina Spektor's Broadway residency, dancing and singing on television with Ben Folds, performing as a tap dance soloist with the National Symphony Orchestra and Philadelphia Orchestra, and choreographing AJR's "Bang" music video. Caleb has also contributed choreography to film and theater projects (Sister Aimee, Sugar Hill Nutcracker, etc.).

Caleb’s work in 2025 centers around three projects: Counterpoint, a concert duo with composer and pianist, Conrad Tao; Bzzz, a comedic music-theater work for tap dancers and world-champion beatboxers; and curation/direction of projects in partnership with arts organizations including the National YoungArts Foundation, the 92NY, and Lincoln Center. Alongside New York City engagements, Caleb’s work will be presented in over a dozen North American cities this year.

Caleb is the recipient of two Bessie Awards, a 2019 New York City Center Choreographic Fellowship, the 2019 Harkness Promise Award, the 2020 Gross Family Prize, and a 2019 NEFA National Dance Project Production Grant. Their work has been featured on NPR's Tiny Desk Concert (with Conrad Tao), on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (alongside Regina Spektor), and on countless media sources including The New York Times, Forbes, Vogue, Interview Magazine, and on the cover of Dance Magazine in September 2019.

Recently, Caleb founded the SW!NG OUT Community Fund to uplift and sustain social swing dance culture in New York City. They also continue to teach at international Vernacular Jazz & Lindy Hop festivals.

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