Caleb Teicher
is a New York City-based dancer, 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 Joyce Theater, New York City Center, Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, 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, choreographing AJR's "Bang" music video. Caleb has also contributed choreography to film and theater projects (Sister Aimee, Sugar Hill Nutcracker).
Caleb’s work in 2024 centers around three projects: SW!NG OUT, Caleb's acclaimed big-band-swing-dance show celebrating the present-day Lindy Hop community; Bzzz, a comedic music-theater work for tap dancers and world-champion beatboxers; and Counterpoint, a concert duo with composer and pianist, Conrad Tao. Alongside hometown engagements, Caleb’s work will be seen in over a dozen U.S. cities this year as well as international engagements in Paris and Seoul.
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.
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