Company E is a contemporary repertory dance company based in Washington, DC, in the USA. The company collaborates with artists from around the world, developing a diverse repertoire and working with choreographers, composers, filmmakers, and other performing artists to create works for the concert stage and, most often, in site-specific locations.

About the performance

For all the dislocation and isolation created by COVID-19, unique new lines of communication and opportunities for expression also emerged. Methods of creation and engagement through digital contact matured and brought people who were, in many ways, already isolated from one another. Zoom, Google Meet, Teams, and other platforms became not just accepted but embraced, breaking down walls that geography and politics had hardened in the last years of the 2010s. In unexpected ways, we became more equal and more known through the shared traumas of COVID. Our experiences in isolation created commonality and contact as much as estrangement.
 

Produced by Khaled Elayyan, Kathryn Sydell Pilkington and Paul Gordon Emerson

Artistic Directors Paul Gordon Emerson and Kathryn Sydell Pilkington

Choreography by Kathryn Sydell Pilkington, Anastasiia Kharchenko, Jumana Dhabis, Royce Zackery, Sea Lee, Dwayne Scheuneman and Paul Gordon Emerson

Film Workshops directed by Alexis Karl

Performed by 

Dancers Ryan Christopher Carlough, Jacqueline Calle, Tara Ashley Compton, Maria Dally, Aseel Fawar,  Sea Lee, Hana Masalmeh, Horizon Miguel, Kathryn Sydell Pilkington, Nowwar Salem, Dwayne Scheuneman and  Rams Siam

Gaza dancers/film-makers 

Mohammed Abid, Razan Abuzaid, Fadi Alashi, Nouran Aljurf, Deema Karaz, Deema kurraz, Mohammed Obaid, Adam Al Sarsak, Mohammed Al-Suwaisi, Ahmed Shino, Mohanad Smama, Yousef Tubail, Mahmoud al Zawayda

Special Guest Artist: Ahmer Hlehl 

text: Mahmoud Darwish and Dwayne Scheuneman

Original Music by Said Murad, Gavin Stewart and Arbol 

Additional music by Nils Frahm, Djivan Gasparayan & Vachagan Avakian