Credits

• Billing

  Cocreated through collaboration between the following team of dancers, designers, thinkers, and live production makers.

  CONCEPT AND DIRECTION
  Erin Kilmurray

  CHOREOGRAPHY DEVELOPED WITH PERFORMERS
  Hannah Michal Santistevan, Keyierra Collins, Kierah “KIKI” King, and Maggie Vannucci

  ASSISTANT DIRECTOR/UNDERSTUDY
  Sarah Ellen Miller

  ORIGINAL DANCING COLLABORATORS
  Dee Alaba and Tia Monet Greer

  SOUND DESIGN
  VITIGRRL aka Hannah Viti

  STAGE MANAGEMENT
  Anastar Alvarez

  TECHNICAL DIRECTION
  Bran Moorhead

  DRAMATURGY
  Dani Wieder

  LIGHTING ADVISOR
  Slick Jorgensen

  STYLING
  Sal Yvat

  PRODUCER
  Erin Kilmurray

• About the Artists

  Dee Alaba (Original dancing collaborator; she/her) is a transfemme dance artist and teacher who was born in Davao, Philippines. She is a wildly dynamic performer, which has led her to collaborate with companies and independent artists such as Katlin Bourgeois, Ayako Kato, Erin Kilmurray, Alex Grelle, The Seldoms directed by Carrie Hanson, The Cambrian’s directed by Benjamin Wardell, and The Fly Honeys, among others. Alaba holds a BFA in dance from Columbia College Chicago.

  Anastar Alvarez (Stage management; they/them) is a stage and production manager based in Chicago. They have worked with companies such as The Sound, Free Street Theatre, The Chicago Children’s Theatre, The Fly Honeys/The Fly Honey Show, and First Floor Theater where they are the company’s production manager. Their upcoming work includes Botticelli in the Fire at First Floor Theater and The Wizards in collaboration with The Chicago Latino Theater Alliance. They are committed to creating equitable, safe, and inviting collaboration spaces.  

  Keyierra Collins (Performer; she/her) is an international dancer, choreographer, and teaching artist based in Chicago. In 2020 she was awarded the 3Arts/Walder Foundation Awardee grant. As a dance artist Collins worked with artists like educator and international performer and choreographer Onye Ozuzu as well as France-based Rwanda artist Dorothee Munyaneza. She also has had the pleasure of working with many Chicago-based artists like Paige Cunningham, Emily Stein, Anna Martine Whitehead, and Sonita Surratt, to name a few. Collins’s work explores how dance and movement can be used to heal trauma, particularly the collective and individual trauma experienced by people of the African diaspora. She graduated from Columbia College Chicago in 2016 with a BA in dance. There she studied various dance forms, including West African, modern, jazz, ballet, hip-hop, and improvisation. Having toured and worked with artists in Haiti and Nigeria, Collins wants to continue to travel and collaborate with artists around the world. 

  Tia Monet Greer (Original dancing collaborator; she/her) is a West Coast–raised, Jersey-born dancer. Her performance credits include Peter Carpenter Performance Project, Joanna Furnans, Joell Hall & Dancers, six seasons with The Fly Honeys/The Fly Honey Show, and is a longtime collaborator with Erin Kilmurray. Greer is a realtor by day, and a brand new mother by day and night.  

  Erin Kilmurray (Director/Creator; she/her) is a genre-straddling dance artist drawing on space-making and movement practices found in nightlife culture, theater, and dance. Her work challenges traditional relationships between performer and spectator through electric, often political performance that enlivens body and environment. She is the creator/director of The Fly Honey Show—a decade-long project considered a “Chicago institution” that follows in the lineage of variety/burlesque performance manifested through an all-body-loving, fierce, empowering collaborative ethos. Consequently, her choreography has been presented in contemporary performance spaces, music venues, public parks, at bars, nightclubs, and on screen including the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Thalia Hall, The Dance Center of Columbia College, Lollapalooza, Empty Bottle, Pivot Arts, University of Chicago, Visceral Dance Chicago, Metro, Beauty Bar, and The Chicago Cultural Center, among others. Her 2019 evening-length work SEARCH PARTY was selected for a month-long cultural-exchange tour with dancebox-Kobe (Japan) the same year. Kilmurray stays deeply invested in broadening community cultures around dancing in Chicago, and has made dances for countless independent makers, parties, music videos, festivals, concerts, house shows, undergraduate programs, and theatrical productions. She is a Links Hall Fellow (2022–23), a Chicago Dancemakers Forum Lab Artist (2020), recognized as 50 People Who Really Perform for Chicago (2020, Newcity), and is newly on the faculty at Northwestern University, where she will continue dance practices that relentlessly amplify women, queer folks, the underground and the underdog. 

  Kierah “KIKI” King (Performer; she/they) is a native of Hartford, Connecticut, where she was homeschooled in their family’s café and attended Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts,  learning the power of service, education, and creativity as central to life. She received a BFA in dance with a minor in Black world studies from Columbia College Chicago (2020) where their passion for social justice, activism, community building, and civic engagement came through in the forms of performance, teaching, training, demonstrations, and choreographic work. Since graduating, she has held creative residencies at Links Hall and The Dance Center, and performed with FORCE! by Anna Martine Whitehead, The Fly Honeys, and the South Loop Spark Plug initiative directed by Bebe Miller and Darrell Jones. KIKI’s choreographic work has been seen at Centre National de la Danse (France), Beyond The Bars Conference at Columbia University New York, College Arts Association, and the American College Dance Association (MI), as well as in RAISIN (6018 | North Gallery, Chicago) and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, organized by Industry of the Ordinary at the Design Museum of Chicago. 

  Sarah Ellen Miller (Assistant director/Understudy; she/they) is a choreographer, dancer, writer, and bartender based in Chicago with a BA from Beloit College. Her freelance performance credits include work by Erin Kilmurray, Joanna Furnans, Kate Corby, Ben Law, Chris Johnson, Gina T’ai, Helen Simoneau, LOUD BODIES, Project Bound Dance, and Erika Farkvam, among others. She has been lucky enough to perform and present work at Going Dutch, Harvest Chicago Contemporary Dance Festival, Dance St. Louis, RAD Fest, Queerly Contemporary Festival (NYC), World Dance Alliance (Newfoundland/France), and the New Prague Dance Festival. As a lover of immersive dance/theater/bar shows, Miller has joyfully performed with Alex Grelle, The Fly Honey Show, made her directorial debut with Dani Wieder for Prop Thtr’s Rhinoceros Theater Festival, and is the cofounder of Reel Movement Project. She is currently collaborating closely with Alix Schillaci on Sunset’s That Way. 

  Bran Moorhead (Technical direction; they/them) is a non-binary queerdo who works as a Renaissance person in performance and stage craft, including technical direction, carpentry, stage management, and  lighting design. With training in opera and musical theater, they said f*ck it and moved into the experimental, devised performance field. Currently, they are the production manager for local touring music venue Thalia Hall, and a longtime multi-collaborator with The Fly Honeys. 

  Hannah Michal Santistevan (Performer; she/her) is a dance artist in Chicago. Her early dance training took place in Colorado at Denver School of the Arts where she received an Arts Endorsed diploma, and later a BFA in Dance from Columbia College Chicago. Santistevan is actively engaged as a multi-genre choreographer, movement director, and performer under esteemed dance artists and merited venues, including: House for an Art Lover (Glasgow, UK), University of Texas, and University of Wisconsin, as well as Chicago spaces like Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park, Columbia College, Links Hall, and now the Museum of Contemporary Art, under the direction of Erin Kilmurray. Currently, her dance/film work Love Letters, made in collaboration with Yuge Zhou, is being projected for public viewing on a 2.5 acre river-façade in downtown Chicago’s Art on theMAR through November 18, 2022.  

  Maggie Vannucci (Performer; she/her) is a Chicago-based dance artist and teacher. She is a company member with The Seldoms directed by Carrie Hanson and has worked with Khechari, Braeden Barnes, Sarah Stearn, and more recently Erin Kilmurray. She received her MFA with distinction in contemporary dance performance through VERVE led by Matthew Robinson in Leeds, UK, and a BFA in contemporary dance from London Contemporary Dance School. While in the UK and Europe she toured four original creations by Sita Osthimer, Matthew Robinson, Hanas Lengoff, and Lenka Vagnerova. Outside of creating and performing, she is a professor of dance at Northwestern and is certified in Bartenieff Fundamentals, which she includes in her somatic-based release technique class, incorporating floor work and improvisation. Through her classes, Vannucci is invested in cultivating a space that is sustainable for the body, community and connection.  

  VITIGRRL, also known as Hannah Viti (Sound design; she/her), is a proud Chicagoan. She’s also a radical, queer, femme dyke who believes that music helps us feel at home in our bodies. VITIGRRL is a sound artist, DJ, podcast producer, and sonic historian. She’s the resident DJ of the award-winning party Slo’mo and part of the iconic Good Girls collective—formed by legendary DJ’s Lori Branch and Lady D. She creates genre-bending soundscapes full of passion and power featuring classic Chicago House, UK Garage, Funk, Soul, Disco, RnB, and more. No venue is too big or small for her, igniting dance floors from Smartbar to Millennium Park in Chicago and recently clubs across the country. In 2020 she graduated from the Sound Arts & Industries Masters program at Northwestern University, where she grew her craft through infusing meaning, archival treasures, and musicality into everything she creates.  

  Dani Wieder (Dramaturgy; she/they) is a dramaturg and director working across performance, dance, film, and puppetry. She has previously collaborated with Erin Kilmurray as the associate director of The Fly Honey Show (2019). She has dramaturged and consulted for Remy Bumppo Theatre Co., Jackalope Theatre Co., Haven Chicago, and Nevermore Park Gallery, among others. Wieder’s live work has been presented by Jackalope Theatre, Prop Thtr, Hot Kitchen Collective, Rough House Theatre Co., Elgin Fringe Festival, and American Theatre Company, among others. She has directed both dance and narrative films, including the award-winning short Cool for Five Seconds. Currently, Wieder has an object included in the exhibition So Mini People at Happy Gallery, and is directing Hard Femme’s upcoming music video. She is a case manager for the Chicago Abortion Fund.

  Sal Yvat (Styling) is a Memphis-bred, Chicago-made interdisciplinary artist working as a wardrobe stylist, costume designer, and creative producer. With a BA in advertising art direction, she is able to interpret and execute visual ideas by combining relevant market trends with detailed research and a refined personal perspective. Since 2016, Yvat have worked with a range of artists and brands, including Square, Nike, Yamaha, Conde Nast, and many more. With a love for connecting with people through wardrobe and fashion history, she is passionate about the ways fashion can be used to foster self-confidence and promote self-expression.