Swing Out: Residency

Northrop Co-commission Featuring choreography by Caleb Teicher and collaborators Evita Arce, Latasha Barnes, and Nathan Bugh With live music performed by Eyal Vilner Big Band   Acclaimed choreographer and rising star Caleb Teicher and friends are creating Swing Out to bring the best of swing dance to the stage. Northrop is scheduling the immersive dance party for Fall 2021 when our community can enjoy it to its fullest. In the meantime, we’ll delve into the creative process and the history of Swing and Lindy Hop with the creative team.

"With a style that fuses tap dance, Lindy hop and vernacular jazz, Caleb Teicher has quickly proven himself a choreographic force to be reckoned with." (Dance Magazine)

Notes from the Northrop Director of Programming Kristen Brogdon

The Joyce Theatre in New York is producing Swing 2020, which is now slated to premiere in summer of 2021. Northrop will be hosting a series of online workshops and conversations with the artists this October, with a performance next fall.

Swing Out is a Joyce Theater Production generously supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts' National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Swing Out was commissioned and created, in part, with the support of The Joyce’s Artist Residency Center, made possible by lead funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Howard Gilman Foundation, LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust, and Doris Duke Charitable Foundation; Works & Process at the Guggenheim; the Center for the Arts at George Mason University; and Northrop at The University of Minnesota; and with additional commissioning funds provided by The O’Donnell-Green Music and Dance Foundation. Additional creation support provided by Deborah and Charles Adelman, Sarah Arison, and Anh-Tuyet Nguyen and Robert Pollock. Music commissioned by the Charles and Joan Gross Family Foundation.

Production residency funded by the New England Foundation for the Arts' National Dance Project, with funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; and the Mason Artist-in-Residence program, which is funded, in part, by the National Endowment for the Arts and the George Mason University Office of Research, Innovation and Economic Impact.