É/Emu

e/Ému

Joe Burgio and Paul Kafka-Gibbons form the discursive duo, E/Ému.  Emu is the large, flightless bird indigenous to Australia, while Ému declines from the French verb "to be touched," or "to be moved."  Joe and Paul, having never declined a chance to yak and roll around on the floor, specialize in creating performances that integrate text and movement.  And yak, rather than roll, tend to lumber as they traverse the steppes of Central Asia in search of tasty lichens.

Photos of É/Emu performing pork loin after life at THANGsgiving 2015 at the Armory in Somerville MA:

https://photos.app.goo.gl/bFsSxDJtuwsoW6647

https://www.flickr.com/photos/142225441@N05/albums/72157667694045545

and video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3w0dMO2OmX4

É/Emu performing Dance in the Age of Diminished Expectation at XFest 2019 at the Firehouse in Worcester, MA, on February 24, 2018 [second half of piece--first half lost in void].

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnne0Ibybqw

É/Emu doing Left of Spring at THANGsgiving 2016

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjKYG-EAiss&t=910s

É/Emu at XFest in Holyoke, 2014:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=420Dd84nU4g

Skinny e/Ému

SKINNY ÉMU is an unplugged sound-word-and-dance ensemble featuring the percussive pan-universalist stylings of Flandrew Fleisenberg, the eloquent saxolinguistics of Joshua Jefferson, and the encrypted movement libretti of terpsicho-texters Joe Burgio and Paul Kafka-Gibbons. 

Performance at floft, Boston, March 26, 2011.

http://www.veoh.com/watch/v81522517qMGqKhRY

Performance at Nave Gallery, Somerville, MA, July 8, 2010 (half-hour performance, video in 3 sections):

    1:  http://www.veoh.com/watch/v81527959qqZmr7gY

    2:  http://www.veoh.com/watch/v81557465M7ANpgt3

    3:  http://www.veoh.com/watch/v815652663TPkNjXA

for more of Flandrew's flavorful fulminations, visit: http://lifeoffleisenberg.blogspot.com/

josh, living 'llage: http://jeffersonsart.blogspot.com/?spref=gb

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