Erin Kilmurray
Nightshade
Part of Links Hall’s 2023 Co-MISSION Festival of New Works
Kilmurray and collaborators share a first look at Nightshade -- a dance, a living architecture, a memory, a celebration. Grooved through repetition, collective rhythms, disorientation and desire, the piece is searching for all that flourishes best in the dark.
Nightshade (work in process)
Created by choreographer Erin Kilmurray
with collaborating performers Alyssa Gregory, Camila Rivero Pooley, Chloe Hamilton, Deandra Alaba, Drew Lewis, Kierah KIKI King, Kristen Donovan, Mikey Rioux, Sarah Ellen Miller + Tuli Bera
Sound by Ariel Zetina
Lighting by Eric Watkins
Project Support by Alix Schillaci
** In addition to initiating Nightshade, Kilmurray was able to be in differing stages of creative processes for several ongoing projects including Knockout, a duet with collaborator Kara Brody, as well as iterative materials for recent work the Function, as well as for The Fly Honeys.
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.
Additional Events:
Pop Up Practice
Fridays March 17 - April 21 from 10:30am - 12pm
at Links Hall
$ Pay What You Can $
Part practice class + part studio play.
Co-MISSION Fellowship Works-In-Progress
Wednesday, April 26th - 7pm
at Links Hall
This event is part of Links Hall’s 2023 Co-MISSION Festival of New Works, two groundbreaking weekends of new performance and public events. Representing some of the most talented makers in Chicago from dance, performance art, installation, and performance as social practice, four artists present works developed while in-residence at Links during the 2022-2023 season. Featured artists include: Links Hall Residents Destine (D’Roc) Young and Rigo Saura and Fellows Rika Lin (a.k.a. Yoshinojo Fujima) and Erin Kilmurray.
Additional Events in the 2023 Co-MISSION Festival of New Works:
Rika Lin | Beyond the Box V: I{m}Perceptions
June 16th, 2023 - 7pm at Links Hall
June 17th, 2023 - 7pm at Links Hall
Rigo Saura | KUBA
June 18th, 2023 - 7pm at Links Hall
June 23rd, 2023 - 7pm at Links Hall
Destine (D'Roc) Young | Systems & Sanctuaries
June 18th, 2023 - 7pm at Links Hall
June 23rd, 2023 - 7pm at Links Hall
Erin Kilmurray | Nightshade
Links Hall's Co-MISSION residencies and fellowships are supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.