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Egg and How I Learned to Save Myself

Nicole Burgio & Jo Kramer Bailey / Burgio Wong Performance

Circus, Dance, Interdisciplinary, Performance Art, Theater

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A woman falls into a haunting internal dreamscape as part of her EMDR guided therapy session. There she must reckon with a past version of herself stuck in a vicious loop. The shared negative self beliefs, shameful memories, and past traumas manifest as literal eggs, and the woman and her past self dance, contort, and eventually fly out of the dreamscape towards a hopeful future.
“Egg, and How I Learned To Save Myself” is a genre-bending movement story living at the intersection of physical theatre, dance, and circus arts. Proud to be ‘weird but not boring’, the duet is performed by Nicole Burgio and Jo Kramer-Bailey, two award-winning Philadelphia based performance artists. The story is told with no spoken or written text, using hand balancing, contortion, aerial dance, and the rare circus art of hair suspension. Its central question: what if your past and present selves met and attempted to help each other? “Egg, and How I Learned To Save Myself” is a surreal, magical, eerie, yet optimistic encounter, beckoning all who live in a milieu of avoidance and shame to instead seek self-forgiveness and connection.


 


Appropriate for ages 7+ (contains some scary imagery and simulated fighting). 

Details
Run Time: 60 mins
Ticket Price: $40

PWYC Options $10+

Venue: Calvary Center for Culture and Community

Dates: September 17, 2026 - September 27, 2026

September 17, 2026 7.00pm

801 S. 48th Street

General Admission: $40

PWYC Options

September 18, 2026 7.00pm

801 S. 48th Street

General Admission: $40

PWYC Options

September 19, 2026 7.00pm

801 S. 48th Street

General Admission: $40

PWYC Options

September 20, 2026 7.00pm

801 S. 48th Street

General Admission: $40

PWYC Options

September 21, 2026 7.00pm

801 S. 48th Street

General Admission: $40

PWYC Options

September 24, 2026 7.00pm

801 S. 48th Street

General Admission: $40

PWYC Options

September 25, 2026 7.00pm

801 S. 48th Street

General Admission: $40

PWYC Options

September 26, 2026 7.00pm

801 S. 48th Street

General Admission: $40

PWYC Options

September 27, 2026 7.00pm

801 S. 48th Street

General Admission: $40

PWYC Options


About the Artist

BURGIO WONG PERFORMANCE
is dedicated to five tenets:


We create as an ensemble of skilled collaborators.
We are happy and honored to be here.
We take the work seriously because we like making it.
Our practice is healthy, our performance is a living gift.
Our work is weird but not boring.


NICOLE BURGIO(Co-Creator/ producer /performer)


With extensive experience in gymnastics, circus, and physical theater, Nicole Burgio fervently pursues movement through performance, technique, and education. Nicole passionately served as an acrobatic consultant / ensemble member of Almanac Dance Circus Theater. Over the last decade, she performed and taught in America, Europe, Asia, and Mexico. Her solo evening-length production xoxo moongirl (produced by Almanac) received critical acclaim at Edinburgh’s Fringe, winning a Barrymore award in 2019. Her original duet 'Myzrie House 'with her husband Mark Wong was commissioned by Temple University in 2021. She is a proud apprentice of Mexican hair suspension artist Ingrid Esperanza, with whom she still collaborates. As founder of The Ready Room (her Philadelphia studio teaching inversions and mobility) Nicole strives to foster inclusive and empowering spaces for movement and balance for all. She also teaches acrobatics at the Pig Iron School at Rowan University. Nicole also holds her Master’s in Clinical and Counseling Health Psychology.


JO KRAMER-BAILEY (Co-Creator/performer)


Jo Kramer Bailey is a queer, multi disciplinary artist from Southern Louisiana. With an MFA in devised theatre, they are passionate about creating genre-bending work that offers bridges between the disciplines of science and performance art. Jo is a co-creator of the stage play Roleplay, as well as the Roleplay documentary, which premiered in the SXSW film festival in 2024. They continue to take the film and physical theatre workshops to universities across the country. Jo was also a co creator of the Frin

  • Amanda JensenLighting Designerarjensen20@gmail.com
  • Jo Kramer-BaileyCo-creator
  • performermirandakramer5@gmail.com
  • Ash Bailey Sound operator
  • sound co-designerabailey0916@gmail.com
  • Mark WongStage Hand / sound co-designermarkwong31@gmail.com
  • Graham CookStage Handgrahamrichardcook@gmail.com
  • Nicole BurgioArtistic Director
  • co-creator
  • performernicoleburgio@gmail.com
  • Meegan CollFront of house environment curatormeegan.coll@gmail.com

Accessibility & Content Considerations

Contact the Fringe Festival Box Office for up to date accessibility information.

This event is appropriate for ages 7+

Simulated throwing up.

Covid-19 Safety policy

This event does not require masks to be worn


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