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Contemporary dance company Ephrat Asherie Dance to perform at Weis Center

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LEWISBURG — The Weis Center for the Performing Arts, Bucknell, will present Ephrat Asherie Dance and the new work, “Odeon,” on Saturday, Feb. 18, at 7:30 p.m. at the center, 525 Weis Drive, Lewisburg.

Ephrat Asherie Dance is a dance company rooted in African American and Latinx street and club dances. EAD investigates the expansive narrative qualities of various social dances as a means to tell stories, develop innovative imagery and find new modes of expression.

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.

The company has presented work at The Apollo Theater; the Celebrity Series of Boston; New York City’s Dixon Place; Fira Tàrrega, Spain; Works & Process at the Guggenheim, New York; New York Live Arts; SummerStage in Central Park, among others.

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