Junk Ensemble
| Formation | 2004 |
|---|---|
| Type | Theatre group |
| Purpose | Dance theatre |
| Location |
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| Membership | 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]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.