Knockout

CONCEPT + DIRECTION: Erin Kilmurray

CHOREOGRAPHY + PERFORMANCE: Erin Kilmurray, Kara Brody

SOUND DESIGN + PERFORMANCE: Corey Smith

DRAMATURGY + DIRECTION: Katrina Dion

COSTUME DESIGN: Jeff Hancock, Mary Williamson

PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER: Bran Moorhead

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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 jump-cuts through a thrill-ride of femme fight sequences, self defense training, toothful camp, sonic landscapes, boyish-horseplay, club cruising, 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.

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Performance History

PERFOR(d)ANCE Festival — Salzburg, Austria; March 2026

World Premiere @ Steppenwolf 1700 Theater; January-February 2025

The Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago; April 2024

Embodied Research Project — Watershed Art + Ecology; May 2023

Detroit Dance Festival — Detroit Institute of the Arts; September 2021

Global Women’s Performing Arts Festival — Live Stream in Busan, South Korea; 2021

Postock Music Festival — Wisconsin; August 2021

Holding Common Ground : Pathways to Cultural Exchange in Vietnam — Live Stream Performance; April 2021

The Cambrians’ Chicago Dances — January 2020 (commission)