the Function

Made within Chicago’s fringe performance scenes, choreographer Erin Kilmurray’s electric, femme-powered, world-building dance performance, the Function, takes shape for its very first month-long engagement at Land and Sea Dept’s warehouse space.

Through genre-bending DIY stage craft, iterative, athletic movement, house-party energy, and bass-driven, sonic storytelling from DJ / sound designer VITIGRRL — is a vibe.

Staged in a runway environment that gives audience members a front row seat, the Function offers a playground of choreography and objects. A stellar cast of dancers actively design, create, operate, and destroy their own utopias; asking and imagining what is possible when we are empowered to envision and rebuild our environments, atmospheres, futures, and realities.

the Function by Erin Kilmurray + collaborators

May 24 + May 31 + June 7 + June 14

@ Land and Sea Dept | 3124 W Carroll Chicago IL

Doors at 7:30P ; Show at 8PM

Estimated run time: 60 minutes, no intermission

Tickets : $10- $25

** Pay what you choose. Please select the ticketing option that best reflects your financial bandwidth, privilege, and capacity to support self-produced art and events in Chicago.

About the artists:

Concept, Direction, and Production Design by

choreographer Erin Kilmurray

Performance + Movement collaboration by

Hannah Santistevan

Keyierra Collins

Kierah {KIKI} King

Maggie Vannucci

with Deandra Alaba (May 31 only)

Sound Design by

VITIGRRL aka Hannah Viti

Technical Direction by

Bran Moorhead

Dramaturgy by

Dani Weider

Assistant Direction by

Sarah Ellen Miller

Production Associate

Vic Wynter

Produced by

Erin Kilmurray

** the Function has been made possible through creative residency and support from Chicago Dancemaker’s Forum, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, The Harris Theater for Music and Dance, Ragdale Foundation, the Field Center for Performance, Dance, and Interdisciplinary Arts (VT), Vashon Island Artist Residency (WA).

Host or Publisher Erin Kilmurray + collaborators