Contemporary & Handstands with Megan Kennedy

Contemporary & Handstands with Megan Kennedy

Date:
Mon 9 Dec 2024 - Fri 13 Dec 2024
Time:
10:00 - 11:30
Please Note:
No external footwear allowed in studio. Shoe covers can be provided at reception if requested.
Venue:
DanceHouse
Admission:
€7 DI Pre-Professional / €9 DI Members / €12 Non-members / Member 10 Class Card €70
Level:
Professional/Advanced
Teacher:
Megan Kennedy

On Monday/Wednesday/Friday Megan’s class will be contemporary release technique, beginning with a physical warm-up and increasing in vigour through floor-work, body flow and jumping, with a reliance on release in the body with space for improvisation. The classes will be energising and physically inclusive, culminating in a choreographic phrase. On Tuesday/Thursday, Megan will lead Handstands & Backbends, starting with a conditioning warm-up and moving into solo/duo training exercises for handbalancing and backbends.

Artist Bio

Megan trained at Alvin Ailey Dance Center in New York City and received a B.A. Honours from Queen Margaret University in Edinburgh. Megan is Co-Artistic Director of multi-award winning Junk Ensemble, previous resident artists at The Tate and creators of Dances Like a Bomb and Powerful Trouble. Choreography for live performance includes The Last Return (Druid Theatre), Portia Coughlan (Abbey Theatre, dir: Caroline Byrne), Red Lines (Dublin Fringe), What Did I Miss (The Ark, dir: Sean Dunne), Fleeting (Seve Feathers, dir: Megan Kennedy), Gym Swim Party (O’Reilly Theatre Dublin), Villette (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Town is Dead (The Abbey Theatre), Tasting Blue (Live Collision), Tchaikovsky’s Queen of Spades Opera (Edinburgh Festival Theatre), Marble & Bread (Dance Limerick).

For film, choreography and performance include Wildfire (Samson Films/dir: Cathy Brady), It Is In Us All (dir: Antonia Campbell Hughes), The Tower (dir: Jesse Jones), In Velvet & Fallow Table (Junk Ensemble), 6SKIN (dir: Alice Maher & Aideen Barry), Five Letters to the Stranger Who Will Dissect My Brain (dir: Oonagh Kearney), The Wake (dir: Oonagh Kearney), Óiche Nollaig na mBan (RTÉ), Wonder House (Dublin Film Festival), Her Mother’s Daughters (Winner Best Actress Capalbio Festival Italy/dir: Oonagh Kearney). Megan has performed with Retina Dance Company (UK), Brokentalkers (The Blue Boy, On This One Night) (IRL), CoisCéim Dance Theatre (Faun, As You Are) (IRL), The Abbey Theatre (Romeo & Juliet) (IRL), Loosysmokes Aerial Company (IRL), Tanz Lange (Germany), Blast Theory (UK), Bedrock Productions (IRL) and productions for The Ark and The Pavilion (IRL). She is a Fellow of Salzburg Global Seminar.

Learn more about her HERE