Duke Arts Presents: 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. Bringing together Asherie's innovative and rigorous choreography with O'Farrill's singular and mesmerizing sound, Shadow Cities is a beautiful extension of Ephrat Asherie Dance's dedication to working with live music. With a cast of six dancers and four musicians, this work explores what it means to stay afloat in the in-between.

"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." - Ephrat Asherie