PRESENTATIONS
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 women, Knockout is a choreographic collage that slips between one stage or place and another. Built from cinematic landscapes, iconic femme-fight sequences, odd obsessions, self-defense training, and THAT girl, the work wields perception as it charges the space between attraction and danger, strength and survival, pause and action, and how we see and what we see.
Initially created as a 12 minute work in 2020, the piece is developing into a evening length work throughout 2025.
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