There will be many site visits and practical hands-on opportunities with organizations that are successfully practicing social entrepreneurship and management skills. This will give participants a chance to learn from experts, while also helping them to stay connected with other trainees. Additionally, an important part of this training is that all trainees will develop and curate a community action plan for their social entrepreneurship goals in their communities.

After returning to their home countries, participants will form alumni groups for networking and creating their own local community action programs, remaining in active contact with Company | E and its in-country partners on this program, providing participants with the resources and assistance needed to develop their own social entrepreneurship programs in the South Caucasus throughout the project period.

Programs will take place in Summer 2024 and Spring and Summer 2025. 

For more information inquire at companyeprograms@gmail.com

 

What happens on a Cultural Diplomacy Program? They're unique experiences, country-by-country and often day-by-day. Here's an inside look at just a few.

Perhaps no single diplomatic transition since the end of the Cold War was as dramatic as the normalization of diplomatic relations between the United States and Cuba. The deepest and coldest holdover from that Cold War era, our neighbor 90 miles to the south was, and remains, a flashpoint.

While the Trump Administration has undid much of what President Obama's normalization was meant to do, the excitement, and the profound possibilities, were the reason the Department of State came to Company | E to be the first cultural program to come to Cuba under the U.S. flag in 60 years.

The Company spent two weeks in Havana in 2015, breaking barrier after barrier, performing and teaching in places which would have been impossible a month earlier.  A year later, Company | E returned to Cuba, this time moving outside of Havana and dancing in cities which hadn't seen an American since 1960.

The Company has deep hopes of returning, and building on, the work done. The video below offers a glimpse into Company | E's days in Cuba.

The challenges faced by the people of Georgia in their pursuit of democracy are endless.

When Company | E was asked to create a new partnership with, and a new evening-length work for the Movement Theater of Tbilisi, Paul Gordon Emerson, Company | E's Executive and Co-Artistic Director created a show which combined Georgian traditions with 1960s New York, highlighting political and societal challenges in Georgia today with the U.S. 50 years ago. Bringing in a U.S. choreographic and muisical team, working with two dozen Georgian artists, the outcome is a show which has become a mainstay of the Movement Theater's repertoire.

The language might be the same, but little else is between Uruguay and Cuba. The U.S. could not have more different relations with these two nations. Yet the goal was very much the same in our trips to Uruguay. Meet. Engage. Teach. Learn. Exchange.

Company | E's three week program in Montevideo centered on our signature BROADWAY BOUND program, an interdisciplinary music, dance, theater engagement in which half a dozen members of the Company and our musical team bring the magic of the Broadway stage to in-country artists. In Montevideo that meant a full orchestra, a choir of 100 and a dance cast of 50, drawing from all over Uruguay to create the wonder of the Great White Way in the Southern Hemisphere.