Ephrat Asherie Dance: “Shadow Cities”

Schedule

Fri Feb 06 2026 at 07:30 pm to 09:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

University of Rochester, Sloan Performing Arts Center | Rochester, NY

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"Shadow Cities" blends street dance and Latin jazz to explore identity, culture, and the in-between.
About this Event

Ephrat Asherie brings her new collaborative show "Shadow Cities" to the University of Rochester, a work created with Grammy award-winning jazz musician and composer Arturo O’Farrill. Bringing together Ephrat Asherie Dance’s exhilarating choreography that remixes and reconnects various street and club dance styles with live music and an original composition featuring O’Farrill’s trademark Latin jazz sound, "Shadow Cities" explores how we are split between cities, memories, and generations; and how we are an amalgam of cultures, fully embodied and fragmented all at once. While identities are fixed and infinitely fluid, EAD's movements are concurrently malleable and explosive. 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.


This performance will take place on Friday, February 6. 2026 in the Sloan Performing Arts Center at 7:30pm, with a post-show meet-the-artists discussion to follow.


Ephrat "Bounce" Asherie is a NYC-based director, choreographer, performer and b-girl, and a 2016 Bessie Award Winner for Innovative Achievement in Dance. Asherie has received numerous awards to support her work including Dance Magazine's Inaugural Harkness Promise Award and two National Dance Project Awards. In 2019, she was the recipient of a NYFA Fellowship and is currently a Jerome Hill Artist Fellow.



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University of Rochester, Sloan Performing Arts Center, 500 Joseph C Wilson Blvd, Rochester, United States

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