About
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, 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.
CREDITS
CONCEPT + DIRECTION: Erin Kilmurray
CHOREOGRAPHY + PERFORMANCE: Kara Brody, Erin Kilmurray
SOUND DESIGN + PERFORMANCE: Corey Smith
DRAMATURGY + DIRECTION: Katrina Dion
COSTUME DESIGN: Jeff Hancock, Mary Williamson
PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER: Bran Moorhead
Performance History
upcoming Premiere @ Steppenwolf 1700 Theatre; 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)
