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
Knockout is a fierce contemporary dance duet that explodes a dynamic choreographic collage of queer possibilities through intimacy, attraction, strength and survival.
Hailed by the Chicago Tribune as “two of Chicago’s most captivating performers,” Kilmurray + Brody propel audiences through a cinematic thrill ride of femme fight sequences, lush sonic landscapes, toothy camp, 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
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Performance History
Red Eye Theater; July 11-12, 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)