Join The Momentary at the RØDE House for a lively weekend of breaking, hip-hop, house, and vogue with Ephrat Asherie Dance! With three opportunities to catch this incredible performance, mark your calendar for an experience of a lifetime.
UNDERSCORED acts as a living archive of five generations of NYC club dancers that showcases a collaboration of performers ranging in age from 28 to 80, celebrating and investigating their connections from the club scenes of the 1970s–like the Loft Party and the Paradise Garage–until today. UNDERSCORED features EAD ensemble members and three NYC club legends- Archie Burnett, Brahms “Bravo” LaFortune, and Michele Saunders.
Experience an exhilarating journey through deeply personal histories, rarely seen archival footage, a vast musical landscape (including funk, disco, house), and decades of dancing through the culturally reflective styles of breaking, hip-hop, house, vogue, waacking, and hustle.
Whether on or off the dance floor, UNDERSCORED is a reminder of how essential it is to connect to one another. Come for the show, stay for the party— This will be a night of dance you don’t want to miss!
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“UNDERSCORED” was developed in Works & Process LaunchPAD residencies at Catskill Mountain Foundation (2022), Bridge Street Theatre (2021), Kaatsbaan (2020), and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Additional residency support provided by CUNY Dance Initiative, Lumberyard, and The Yard. Past performances have taken place at Harlem Stage, Kaatsbaan Cultural Park, Lincoln Center, the Guggenheim Museum, The Jay and Linda Grunin Center for the Arts, and The Yard.
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"UNDERSCORED" was made possible by the NEFA’s National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and Mellon Foundation. This project is made possible in part by a grant from the APAP - Association of Performing Arts Professionals for a residency at The Jay and Linda Grunin Center, made possible through support from the Mellon Foundation. “UNDERSCORED” is a National Performance Network (NPN) Creation & Development Fund Project co-commissioned by Works & Process in partnership with ArtPower at UC San Diego, The Momentary and The Yard. The Creation & Development Fund is supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency).
Photo: Erick Munari