‘Shadow Cities’ – Ephrat Asherie Dance with Arturo O’Farrill

Ephrat Asherie collaborates with Grammy award-winning pianist and composer Arturo O’Farrill on the company’s newest creation, “Shadow Cities,” a reflection on the beauty, vastness and joy of the in-between. “Shadow Cities” is a beautiful extension of Ephrat Asherie Dance’s dedication to working with live music, bringing together Asherie’s innovative and rigorous choreography with O’Farrill’s singular and mesmerizing sound. This work explores what it means to stay afloat in the in-between, with a cast of six dancers and four musicians.

“We are split between cities, memories and generations; we are an amalgam of cultures, fully embodied and fragmented all at once; our movements are concurrently malleable and explosive, our identities fixed and infinitely fluid. Whether as immigrants, BIPOC identities or first-generation Americans, this feeling of in-betweenness connects everyone in the work as we ask how and why – halfway between so many disparate extremes in time, space and state – we often feel our most enlivened selves. It is from this vivid place that ‘Shadow Cities’ comes to life,” says Ephrat Asherie.