I think I could eat you. I would. If it came to that. But for now. I’ll just eat. Me. For now…

Created and performed by Emily Michaels King, CHICKEN WING is a solo performance that rearranges movement, direct address, and collage to examine archetype, stagecraft, and the self: the ish, the centered, the expression. When they placed the order for you and put you in the microwave, did a rubber duck pop out? A movie star? You have to look at this show sideways. It’s about picking your poison. Saying the stuff that makes you sweat. Admitting who you’ve always been when you look dead in the mirror. Doing your thing.

CHICKEN WING celebrates confession and finally finding your role in the fairytale of it all.

NEW SOLO for ISOLATED ACTS
in the NEW WORKS 4 WEEKS FESTIVAL
RED EYE THEATER
MINNEAPOLIS, MN
JUNE 1-3, 2023

I remembered vultures

COLLABORATION WITH DUSTIN MAXWELL
MOVEMENT RESEARCH AT JUDSON CHURCH
NEW YORK, NY
APRIL 3, 2023

WORK IN PROGRESS SHOWING

My body told me that I’m killing it with correctness. In this new work, ‘I remembered vultures’, by Dustin Maxwell and Emily Michaels King, two performers embody and create landscape, layer text with sensation, and craft a visually stunning journey inspired by human biology, topography, and animal instinct. What if you were a map, a painting, a universe? What if a cell was? Just one of them. What then? This exploration of the ecologies of the body and earth examines the mysteries and revelations of our human design and where our wildness lives when we’ve forgotten it.