Shadow Cities

Ephrat Asherie Dance with music by Arturo O'Farrill

Ephrat Asherie collaborates with Grammy award-winning jazz musician and composer Arturo O’Farrill in the company’s newest creation, Shadow Cities. Bringing together EAD’s exhilarating choreography that remixes and reconnects various street and club dance styles with music and an original composition featuring O’Farrill’s trademark Latin jazz sound, Shadow Cities explores what it means to be and to feel in-between.

We are split between cities, memories and generations; We are an amalgam of cultures, fully embodied and fragmented all at once. Our identities are fixed and infinitely fluid, our movements concurrently malleable and explosive. We are utterly out of synch and suddenly in immaculate unison. This work asks how and why – halfway between so many disparate extremes in time, space and state – we sometimes feel most at home and our most enlivened selves. With a cast of six dancers and four musicians, Shadow Cities is a reflection on the beauty, vastness and joy of the in-between.

Shadow Cities is made possible by lead commissioning and development support from the Modlin Center for the Arts, Harkness Dance Center’s Artist-in-Residence Program at 92NY, and commissioning support by Penn Live Arts Accelerator Program and Duke Arts Presents. Additional commissioning funds provided by the O’Donnell-Green Music and Dance Foundation,  New Music USA’s Organization Fund and New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. Development support provided by the Studio Artists program of the NYC Public School’s Arts Office.

For more information, please visit Ephrat Asherie Dance’s page on Pentacle’s website.