Junk Ensemble
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| Formation | 2004 |
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| Type | Theatre group |
| Purpose | Dance theatre |
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| Members | Jessica Kennedy Megan Kennedy |
| Website | junkensemble |
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]
Awards
[edit | edit source]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 | edit source]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 | edit source]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
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External links
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