ORIGINAL, LONG FORM, [independent] choreographic projects + practices
A fierce duet between two women, Knockout is a self-possessed, ever-morphing cinematic dance work contending with the nature of the liminal : a provocative study of the space between desire, intimacy, strength, and survival.
Erin Kilmurray + Kara Brody’s choreographic collage novel jump-cuts through a thrill-ride of fight sequences, self defense training, toothful camp, odd obsessions, and partnerships that sidestep tidy categorization. TKO, baby.
[2025]
Knockout
Nightshade is an iterative and emerging group dance work exploring grief, groove, archive, ephemerality, crowds, collective rhythm, disorientation, desire. It is a living architecture, a memory, a celebration, and a vigil, bound by sound, movement and each other.
[2023]
Nightshade
the Function is a genre-bending, femme-powered dance work that asks and imagines what is possible when empowered to rebuild our environments, atmospheres, futures, and realities. With a playground of choreography and hardware store objects, four dancers actively create, operate, labor, and destroy their own utopias / performance worlds through DIY stage craft, iterative, athletic movement, bass driven, sonic storytelling, and house party energy.
[2022]
the Function
SEARCH PARTY
Created and performed by a group of women and queer artists, SEARCH PARTY relentlessly pushes up against external pressures by investigating agency, defiance, freedom in space and in the body — asking what is expected of us and what are we capable of.
Staged like a sporting event, this work is wrought from defeat, endurance, compassion, competition, collaboration, and victory - as individuals, as a group, and together with our audiences.
[2019]
The Salts
Sharing the bill with local bands and guest performers in an immersive atmosphere, The Salts perform a set of high-velocity dances to distorted guitar, driving bass lines, wild vocals creating a kinetic energy - like seeing a band’s performance from the inside of the kick drum.
[2015]
other work(s)
[select] short form dance works + commissions + collaborations + group shows + university creations + archival projects
[2011 - Present]