Erin Kilmurray is a powerhouse dance artist making genre-straddling performance projects that challenge traditional relationships between performer and spectator through electric, often political work that enlivens body and environment. Resonating in a space where social gatherings, dance, and parties collide, she works from contemporary dance, theater, space-making, team building, nightlife culture + social practice.
Awarded a 2020 Lab Artist by Chicago Dancemakers Forum, Kilmurray speaks on landmark works (The Fly Honey Show, SEARCH PARTY, Knockout.) alongside influences, curiosities, and future-making with her project-in-process, the Function.
Created and performed by a group of women and queer artists, SEARCH PARTY is a live dance work that relentlessly challenges and reconstructs the boundaries we face by investigating freedom in space and in the body, and what is expected of us vs. what we are capable of. Existing somewhere between a dancefloor and a sports arena, this work is wrought from defeat, endurance, compassion, competition, collaboration, and victory - as individuals, as a group, and with our audience directly as complicit spectators.
Kilmurray is in-process with the Function - an episodical project built on envisioning feminist utopias through dance. By vigorously cross-training with design, DJ, and production building, Kilmurray and dancers will share visions for the future and tag-team creative skill sets in their process --- exploring agency, authorship, grief, and joy through the creation and operation of dance spaces.
You can donate through her websites: www.erinkilmurray.com / www.theflyhoneyshow.com or directly to her venmo: @Erin-Kilmurray
