Knockout 
Created + Performed by Erin Kilmurray + Kara Brody
Presented by Lucky Plush Productions
With Sound Design by Corey Smith

Doors  7:00pm
Performance 7:30pm
Drinks Snacks Chats to Follow 

@ Watershed Art & Ecology in Pilsen 
exact address / location will be sent out day before event

About Knockout

Knockout is a choreographic collage built from odd obsessions, girl-on-girl fight sequences, self-defense training manuals, 70’s sexploitation films, and cinematic landscapes. A fierce duet between two women, the work plays with perception, partnering and power as it quickly jumps within real and imagined terrains and realities.

Originally created as a 12 minute duet in 2020 within The Cambrian’s Chicago Dances programming, Kara + Erin have continued to play with the work on proscenium stages like Detroit Institute of Art, in rural barns at Postock Festival in Madison WI, virtually in Vietnam and South Korea, and staged on students at Northwestern University and Beloit College.

Erin and Kara are using this second phase of development to expand the worlds built around these themes, in pursuit to create a standalone evening length work. They will be sharing brand new material in tandem with existing sections in hopes to gain feedback to how these developing themes are being received. 

This second phase of research and development is made possible through support from Lucky Plush Productions’ Embodied Research Project 

About Us

Kara Brody is a movement based artist focusing her work towards collaborative spaces. Based in Chicago, she has performed with companies Lucky Plush Productions, Khecari, and The Cambrians. She has worked with Faye Driscoll, Erin Kilmurray, Alice Klock, Danceable Projects | Erick Montes, The Fly Honey Show and Ayako Kato. Kara teaches frequently throughout the Chicago area as a Lecturer at University of Chicago and on faculty at The Joffrey Academy, Visceral Dance Center, Virtual Dance Lab, and COMMON Conservatory. She has been a guest teaching artist at The Kennedy Center, Rutgers University, Northern Illinois University,  Sonoma State University, Pro.Noun Dance Festival, and Hamilton College. Most recently, Kara co-curated a two-week series at the Steppenwolf 1700 Theatre for their winter Lookout Series.

Erin Kilmurray is a genre-straddling dance artist creating electric performance work on the pop-fringe borderline. Her dance practice is grounded in the forms and structures found in nightlife cultures, dance teams, theater and space-making. Through facilitating her various dance practices, she is committed to relentlessly amplifying women, queer folks, the underground and the underdog.

Erin is the director/choreographer of The Fly Honey Show -- called ‘Chicago institution’ by the Chicago Reader -- which sold out 1000 seat rock venue Thalia Hall for a 3 night run in 2022, with performances at Lollapalooza to follow. She was one of three artists to be curated into the Museum of Contemporary Art’s inaugural Chicago Performs program with her recent project, the Function. Erin is currently a Links Hall Fellow (2022-2023), was recognized on Newcity Magazine’s 50 People Who Really Perform for Chicago (2023), ans a Chicago Dancemakers Forum Lab Artist (2021-2020). She is on faculty at Northwestern University and University of Chicago.