New York City native Paul Gordon Emerson has co-founded and directed two of Washington, DC’s signature dance troupes over the past 20 years. Company | E has been hailed as “deserving of its reputation as one of America’s finest (Ha’aretz newspaper, Israel). The Repertory Troupe, which has staged work by Paul Taylor, Ohad Narharin, Sharon Eyal and Gai Behar, Kate Weare and a suite of national and international emerging choreographers (Texas’s Joshua Pugh, Sweden’s Lidia Wos, Israel’s Rachel Erdos, Spain’s Thomas Noone to name a few) is a regular partner of the U.S. Department of State, focusing its international work in Cultural Diplomacy in countries with difficult or, often, almost no relationship with the United States. Company | E was the first U.S. troupe brought to Cuba when the Obama Administration normalized relations in 2015. The Company, working with the Department, has traveled three times to Russia since 2015, and conducted programs in Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, China and 30 other countries in the last decade. In DC Company | E has been commissioned by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts to create four evening length works in just the last two years.  “Entangled” is a story of the dependence that exists between the captor and the captured, and of the relationship which evolves between them. The dance comes from the stories and recounting of political prisoners and their captors, many of whom endure terrible abuse, but who relate the fierce bond which evolves between them and their captors – one which is co-dependent, often brutal, occasionally compassionate and yet which has a tiny measure of justice when the prisoner leaves behind the prison, where the captor remains, becoming, himself, the captive of his own making.