Junk Ensemble (styled junk ensemble) is an Irish dance theatre company working in a genre related to Tanztheater. The company was established in 2004 by identical twin sisters Jessica and Megan Kennedy.[1] It is based in Dublin and tours throughout Europe and North America. Its productions focus on unique and original visuals and production methods.[2]
| Formation | 2004 |
|---|---|
| Type | Theatre group |
| Purpose | Dance theatre |
| Location |
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Membership | Jessica Kennedy Megan Kennedy |
| Website | junkensemble |
Awards edit
Junk Ensemble won the Culture Ireland Touring Award in 2008.[3] In 2011, they won the Dublin Fringe Festival Best Production Award for their production Bird with Boy,[4][5] and Drinking Dust was listed as an Irish Times Highlight the same year.
Press edit
The Sunday Times has written that "junk ensemble has created some of the most impressive contemporary dance in Ireland of recent years" [6] and Irish Theatre Magazine wrote that Junk Ensemble "do not disappoint in artistic experiment with bold visual staging and musical adventuring."[7]
Productions edit
Productions are listed with the year and venue of their debut.[8]
- The Rain Party (2007)
- Drinking Dust (2008)
- Pygmalian Revisited (2010) - Aix-en Provence Festival
- Five Ways to Drown (2010) - Dublin Dance Festival
- Sometimes We Break (2012) - Tate Britain
- Bird with Boy (2011) - Dublin Fringe Festival
- The Falling Song (2012) - Dublin Dance Festival
- Blind Runner (2013) - Dance Ireland, short film
- Dusk Ahead (2013) - Kilkenny Arts Festival
- It Folds (2015) - Abbey Theatre, joint production with Brokentalkers
- Walking Pale (2016) - Dublin Dance Festival
- Soldier Still (2017) - Dublin Fringe Festival
- Dolores (2018) - Dublin Dance Festival[9]
References edit
- ^ DeFrantz, Thomas F.; Rothfield, Philipa (14 September 2016). Choreography and Corporeality: Relay in Motion. Springer. p. 197. ISBN 9781137546531.
- ^ McGrath, Aoife; Meehan, Emma (29 November 2017). Dance Matters in Ireland: Contemporary Dance Performance and Practice. Springer. p. 108. ISBN 9783319667393.
- ^ "Irishtheatre.ie Company Listing".
- ^ "Winners of Dublin Fringe Festival".
- ^ "Irish Times interview with junk ensemble".
- ^ "The Falling Song press". Archived from the original on 15 January 2015.
- ^ "Irish Theatre Magazine review of Falling Song". Archived from the original on 15 January 2015.
- ^ "Junk Ensemble - About Us". www.junkensemble.com. Retrieved 21 May 2018.
- ^ "Freeing Lolita from Nabokov's narrative clutches". The Irish Times. Retrieved 21 May 2018.