UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — In “Underscored,” Ephrat Asherie Dance artists and legendary elders of the New York dance-club scene — Archie Burnett, Michele Saunders and Brahms “Bravo” LaFortune — will re-create a 1990s-era underground dance scene with a recorded soundtrack of music samples to match.
The Center for the Performing Arts will present the company’s most recent work at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 7, in Eisenhower Auditorium. Call 814-863-0255, or visit “Underscored” for more information or to purchase tickets.
“The general thing is how empowering and moving and inspiring it is to see somebody living in their fullness and just being themselves,” Asherie said. “I don’t think the power of that can be underestimated.”
After the performance, the artists will speak with interested audience members. Visit Engagement for details about related community events.
Ephrat Asherie Dance, its artists celebrating their roots in African-American, Latinx street and club dance, explores the hip-hop, house, breaking, freestyle and jazz-dance artforms to tell stories and invoke imagery.
Though extensively trained in ballet and modern dance styles, Asherie said that socially she was exposed to a great deal of dance, music and culture of the African diaspora via hip-hop, jazz and house music — the elements, to her company, that underscore the community of movement.