“The Fly Honey Show” (Photo: Matthew Gregory Hollis)
The Fly Honey Show, an annual summertime performance event created and directed by Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago alumna Erin Kilmurray ’08, returns for its seventh year August 18-September 3 at the Chopin Theatre, . The Fly Honey Show 7 features “an ensemble of empowered individuals who come together to provoke desire and encourage all who chose to walk through the door to love themselves boldly.” For tickets, click here.
“The Fly Honey Show” (Photo: Matthew Gregory Hollis)
The Fly Honeys are a group of choreographers, dancers, musicians, actors, designers, and performance artists who promote a safe space for empowering identity and self-expression. The Fly Honey Show is their cabaret creation: a dance and performance concert “celebrating body + sex positivity through a feminist perspective.” The Fly Honey Show is produced by The Inconvenience, a multi-disciplinary arts collective founded in 2008.
Erin Kilmurray in “The Fly Honey Show” (Photo: Megan Lee Miller)
Kilmurray, a graduate of the Dance Center’s Dance BA program, is also one of the production’s choreographers. The show’s music director/composer is John Cicora ’10, a graduate of the Columbia College Chicago Music Department‘s Music BA program with a concentration in instrumental jazz.
“The Fly Honey Show” (Photo: Matthew Gregory Hollis)
Kilmurray is proud that hundreds of Chicago artists have contributed to the annual project over the years. Among them are alumni and former students from Columbia College’s School of Fine & Performing Arts and School of Media Arts. Columbia alums involved in this year’s Fly Honey Show include:
Dance Center alums Tia Monet Greer ’13, Jillian Endebrock ’12, Ginny Cook ’11, Anna Normann ’09, Maggie Dianovsky-Jarecki ’09, and Lindsey Lee ’14 and former Dance Center students Marie Mohrbacher and Andy Slavin; Julie Brannen ’13, recipient of a Graduate Laban Certificate in Movement Analysis; Theatre Department alum Marta Jean Evans ’08 and former students Ryan Tang and Sasha Smith; Music Department alums Mat Roberts ’12 and Alex Kerwin ’14 and former student Josh Rosen; Photography Department alum Megan Miller ’11; Jon Phillips ’09, a graduate of Columbia College’s film and video program; former film program student Max Heiligman; and Television Department alum David Hannibal ’08. For a full list of The Fly Honey Show‘s core creative and production team, click here.
“The Fly Honey Show” (Photo: Matthew Gregory Hollis)
‘EVERYBODY. NO MATTER WHAT YOUR BODY.’
