Ephrat Asherie Dance (EAD) is a dance company rooted in African American and Latinx
street and club dances. Dedicated to exploring the inherent complexities of these forms,
EAD investigates the expansive narrative qualities of various social dances, including
breaking, hip-hop, house and vogue, as a means to tell stories, develop innovative
imagery and find new modes of expression. EAD’s first evening-length work, A Single
Ride, earned two Bessie nominations in 2013 for Outstanding Emerging Choreographer
and Outstanding Sound Design by Marty Beller. The company has presented work at
The Apollo Theater; the Celebrity Series of Boston; Columbia (Mo.) College; New York
City’s Dixon Place; Fira Tàrrega, Spain; Works & Process at the Guggenheim, New York; Jacob’s Pillow dance festival, Becket, Mass.; the Joyce Theater, New York; La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, New York; the River to River Festival, New York;
Mass MoCA, North Adams, Mass.; New York Live Arts; SummerStage in Central Park,
and The Yard, Chilmark, Mass., among others.

Ephrat “Bounce” Asherie is a New York City-based b-girl, dancer and choreographer
and a 2016 Bessie Award Winner for Innovative Achievement in Dance. She has
received numerous awards to support her work including Dance Magazine’s inaugural
Harkness Promise Award, the Jacob’s Pillow Fellowship at the Tilles Center for the
Performing Arts at LIU and a Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grant. Last year,
Asherie received a National Dance Project award to support the development and
touring of her newest work, Odeon.

Odeon, an original dance work for six dancers and four musicians, is the second
collaboration between sister and brother team Ephrat and Ehud Asherie (choreographer
and musical director, respectively). Set to the music of fin-de-siècle Brazilian composer
Ernesto Nazareth, known for mixing early 20th-century romantic music with samba and
other popular Afro-Brazilian rhythms, this work takes a hybrid approach to movement.
Odeon delves into what happens when you bring together parts of the extended family
of street and club dances — breaking, hip-hop, house and vogue — and remix them
and challenge them to inhabit unfamiliar spatial and choreographic contexts.