Caleb Teicher: Watch those feet!

Bessie Award-winning tap performer Caleb Teicher
introduces a showing of excerpts from his work, Variations,
at American Tap Dance Center
(c)2015, Eva Yaa Asantewaa

Perhaps you've found yourself cursing the fact that you had to watch a tap show in a theater with bad sightlines, unable to see the dancers' feet. When that has happened to me, I've consoled myself with the thought that tap is music. At least, I can listen. However, I prefer to be able to see how each dancer works those musical instruments.

Left-to-right: Elizabeth Burke, Gabe Winns and Teicher
(c)2015, Eva Yaa Asantewaa

Watching the crisp, incisive choreography of Caleb Teicher, you will want to see entire bodies, from head to toe. Lots going on there. But the feet, in particular...the feet! You must observe how the feet--scrupulous, sensitive, clear--reveal every impulse and inflection and variation of the music--in this case, the singularity of Glenn Gould playing Bach’s ‘Goldberg Variations.’

Winns at work
(c)2015, Eva Yaa Asantewaa

Burke at work
(c)2015, Eva Yaa Asantewaa

So, I wish you excellent seating this weekend for Tap 'N Time, the Saturday night program at Jersey Tap Fest (Bloomfield College's Westminster Arts Center), featuring excerpts from Teicher's Variations as well as works by Heather Cornell and Jason Samuels Smith.

For complete Jersey Tap Fest information and tickets, click here.

Join the legendary Jane Goldberg for film and panel on tap

Tap dance expert extraordinaire
Jane Goldberg
(photos courtesy of Jane Goldberg)

STEPS ON BROADWAY ARTISTS TALK SERIES 

WITH JANE GOLDBERG

Saturday January 11 , 8pm (followed by a reception)

Steps on Broadway

2121 Broadway, 4th floor, Manhattan

(map/directions)

Steps Beyond continues its Artists Talk Series with a film by famed tapper Jane Goldberg, followed by a panel discussion. The film, By Word of Foot: Passing on the Tap Tradition, is a documentation of Goldberg's three tap festivals held in NYC venues in 1980, 1982 and 1985, paving the way for tap's continuity by bringing together tap masters and students.

The discussion that follows will feature panelists Goldberg, David Parker, Melinda Mousouris, Barbara Duffy, and Heather Cornell, discussing the teaching and passing on of the tap tradition.

Admission: $10 (Purchase online, at Steps' front desk or call 212-874-2410 x27.)