PRESENTATIONS
PREMIERE: Steppenwolf 1700 ; January 24 - February 2 2025
The Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago ; April 2024
Work In Process Showings —- Watershed Art & Ecology; May 2023
Detroit Dance Festival — Detroit Institute of the Arts; September 2021
Global Women’s Performing Arts Festival - Busan, South Korea - Live Stream - 2021
Postock Music Festival — Wisconsin; August 2021
Holding Common Ground : Pathways to Cultural Exchange in Vietnam- Live Stream Performance - April 2021
Chicago Dances; The Cambrian’s — January 2020 (initial commission)
Knockout
Starring as “The Girls”
Erin Kilmurray
Kara Brody
with Corey Smith as themself.
A fierce duet between two women, Knockout is a self-possessed, ever-morphing cinematic dance work contending with the nature of the liminal : a provocative study of the space between desire, intimacy, strength, and survival.
Erin Kilmurray + Kara Brodys’ choreographic graphic novel jump-cuts through a thrill-ride of fight sequences, self defense training, toothful camp, odd obsessions, and partnerships that sidestep tidy categorization.
Intoxicating, heart-stopping, and surreal, Knockout exists inside of the disorienting moment after the point of contact but just before hitting the floor.
TKO, baby.
Knockout |
Concept + Direction by Erin Kilmurray
Choreographed + Performed by Erin Kilmurray + Kara Brody
Sound Design by Corey Smith
Dramaturgy + Co Direction by Katrina Dion
Costume Design by Mary Williamson
Production Stage Management by Bran Moorhead
photos: Sarah Larson
The continued development of Knockout has been made possible through support from Lucky Plush Production’s Embodied Research Project.
IN THE PRESS |
Meet Me in the In-Between : a response by Ryan Adelsheim- Performance Response Journal 2024