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

Knockout

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)