LONG FORM PROCESS, EVENING LENGTH DANCE, GROUP SHOWS + collaborations.
Knockout
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 Brody’s choreographic collage novel jump-cuts through a thrill-ride of fight sequences, self defense training, toothful camp, odd obsessions, and partnerships that sidestep tidy categorization. TKO, baby.
WORLD PREMIERE : JAN 24 - FEB 2 2025
Steppenwolf 1700 Theater
the Function
the Function is a genre-bending, femme-powered dance work that asks and imagines what is possible when empowered to rebuild our environments, atmospheres, futures, and realities. With a playground of choreography and hardware store objects, four dancers actively create, operate, labor, and destroy their own utopias / performance worlds through DIY stage craft, iterative, athletic movement, bass driven, sonic storytelling, and house party energy.
Nightshade
Nightshade is an iterative and emerging group dance work exploring grief, groove, archive, ephemerality, crowds, collective rhythm, disorientation, desire.
It is a living architecture, a memory, a celebration, and a vigil, bound by sound, movement and each other.
SEARCH PARTY
Created and performed by a group of women and queer artists, SEARCH PARTY relentlessly pushes up against external pressures by investigating agency, defiance, freedom in space and in the body — asking what is expected of us and what are we capable of.
Staged like a sporting event, this work is wrought from defeat, endurance, compassion, competition, collaboration, and victory - as individuals, as a group, and together with our audiences.
The Salts
Sharing the bill with local bands and guest performers in an immersive atmosphere, The Salts perform a set of high-velocity dances to distorted guitar, driving bass lines, wild vocals creating a kinetic energy - like seeing a band’s performance from the inside of the kick drum.