ODEON, an evening-length work for six dancers and four musicians, takes a hybrid approach to movement. Remixing and reconnecting various street and club styles while exploring their roots in West African rhythms and movements, ODEON blurs time, tempo and genre. The score, composed by fin-de-siecle Brazilian composer Ernesto Nazareth, blends popular Afro-Brazilian rhythms with classical romantic melodies. Musicians and dancers cross paths seamlessly on stage through choreography that reflects Nazareth's fluid approach to music—layering breaking floorwork, house-dance footwork, New York style hustle and vogue—ODEON invites you into a world wholly its own.

Premiered at the Doris Duke Theatre at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival June 27 - July 1, 2018.

Odeon is 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, and was created in part during a residency at the Pillow Lab and with the support of the Jacob's Pillow Fellowship at the Tilles Center for the Performing Arts at LIU Post. General Operating support is made possible in part by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project with funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. EAD would like to thank the LMCC Extended Life Program, Lincoln Center Education, Guggenheim Works & Process, and TOWN Stages for additional developmental support.