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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.

Ephrat Asherie’s exhilarating choreography remixes street and club dance styles with the live Latin jazz sound of Grammy-winner Arturo O’Farrill. Shadow Cities asks how and why we can feel our most enlivened selves when we are halfway between disparate extremes in time, space and state. With an amalgam of cultures, our identities are fixed and infinitely fluid, our movements malleable and explosive.

Fan favorite Arturo O’Farrill returns, this time with a small combo to perform a concert that brings the straight-ahead dimensions of O’Farrill’s jazz chops to Soraya audiences. While known for his Afro-Cuban roots and big band, O’Farrill is equally one of the most masterful and versatile jazz pianists with extensive command and stylistic range.

In a thrilling collaboration between GRAMMY®-winning pianist/composer Arturo O'Farrill and renowned street dancer/choreographer Ephrat Asherie, Shadow Cities blends street dance with Latin jazz in a vibrant, boundary-blurring performance. This dynamic fusion explores identity, connection, and transformation through rhythm and movement. Asherie’s dynamic movement phrases paired with O'Farrill’s innovative compositions invite audiences into a world that celebrates the beauty and vastness of in-between spaces—whether cultural, temporal, or emotional. The collaboration highlights the power of dance and music as tools for personal and collective expression, telling stories of belonging and the transformative potential of creative unity.

ARTURO O’FARRILL, pianist, composer, and educator, was born in Mexico and grew up in New York City. Arturo’s professional career began with the Carla Bley Band and continued as a solo performer with a wide spectrum of artists including Dizzy Gillespie, Lester Bowie, Wynton Marsalis, and Harry Belafonte.

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