"Excellent in execution and entirely delightful" (The Fjord Review), Luke Hickey presents the percussive revue A Little Old, A Little New. Directed and choreographed by Hickey, the work accentuates the powerful synergy created when tap dancers and jazz musicians are in conversation, while offering an exciting array of historical and contemporary musical explorations. "A true crowd pleaser" (BroadwayWorld), this high-energy and virtuosic evening of world class dance and music offers something for everyone, leaving the audience feeling further connected to the black American art form of tap dance. The work features tap dancers Elizabeth Burke and Tommy Wasiuta, pianist Liya Grigoryan, percussionist Charles Goold, and bassist Mark Lewandowski. "Whether in unison, in the round, or riffing off one another, the trio was extraordinarily tight with a marvelous swing."

A Little Old, A Little New is Luke Hickey’s first full-length body of work. Its inception was sparked by Hickey’s consistency dancing at Jim Caruso’s Monday Night Cast Party at Birdland Jazz Club. In the fall of 2018, Caruso (a good friend of Hickey’s and a booker at the club) graciously offered the space for Hickey to create and explore his choreographic ideas. Soon after, the show made its world premiere with a sold out weekend in the club’s newly constructed Birdland Theater. A year later in the summer of 2019, the show traveled to the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival as a part of their Inside/Out Performance Series. Finally after performances returned in the summer of 2021, A Little Old, A Little New returned to the stage for Battery Dance Festival’s 40th Anniversary. It came full circle when Hickey was asked back to Birdland in November of 2021, almost 3 years to the date that the work first premiered. Most recently the company performed at the newly constructed Chelsea Factory in NYC in collaboration with the Joyce Theater. The show aims to capture the synergy and intimacy of tap dance in the jazz clubs, no matter the venue.