Erin Kilmurray is a Chicago-based dance artist creating genre-straddling, femme-forward performance work that demands aliveness and collectivity on stage, in studio, and with audiences. She facilitates a dance and community practice that explores the liberations of women, queer folks, the underground and the underdog.  Her work embraces mess, play, and lessons in how arbitrary the line between artist and audience can be. 

Erin is the founder / director of  The Fly Honey Show - a performance project that recently sold out rock venue Thalia Hall, was featured at Lollapalooza, and named a “Chicago institution” (Chicago Reader). She is recognized as an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship Awardee (2023), a Chicago Dancemakers Lab Artist (2020), and one of 50 People Who Really Perform for Chicago (2023; Newcity). Kilmurray and was one of three artists commissioned for the inaugural Chicago Performs program at the Museum of Contemporary Art, where she premiered her most recent work, the Function (2022). Additionally, Erin has made dances for countless independent makers, parties, music videos, festivals, concerts, and theatrical productions. She is also on faculty at Northwestern University and the University of Chicago.