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
Credits
DESCRIPTION
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.
Knockout
Knockout
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)