Caleb Teicher and Nic Gareiss – Ear to the Ground

Caleb Teicher and Nic Gareiss blend tap, swing, clogging and Irish step dance in Ear to the Ground.

“A virtuoso step dancer in Irish and Appalachian traditions...an undersung treasure.” — Brian Seibert on Nic Gareiss, The New York Times 

“One of the brightest lights in tap today.” — The New Yorker on Caleb Teicher

Two-time Bessie Award winner Caleb Teicher joins forces with Nic Gareiss for Ear to the Ground, an evening-length duo collaboration that finds the two performers intermingling tap, swing, Appalachian clogging and Irish step dance.

Teicher and Gareiss unite improvisational innovation with tradition, staging a singular, genre-defying encounter of percussive movement. Gareiss, who The Boston Herald described as “the most inventive and expressive step dancer on the scene,” brings movement informed by 30 years of ethnographic study and performance, while Teicher brings their widely lauded approach to modern interdisciplinary collaboration. The result is an intimate, transportive performance grounded at the crossroads of jazz and folk, social and solo dance.

Caleb Teicher and Nic Gareiss will also present a free matinee performance for public school groups through Design for Sharing, our K-12 Arts Education Program.  

Support provided by the Henry Mancini Tribute Fund.