Dancer from the Dance: Junk Ensemble Workshop
- Date:
- Wed 9 Jul 2025
- Time:
- 11:00 - 13:00
- Venue:
- DanceHouse
- Admission:
- 10 euro DI Member/ 15 euro non Member
Devising for Performance - Workshop
Dancer From the Dance Festival
The workshop will begin with an energetic & physically inclusive warm-up, and progress into task-based exercises devised in groups and in pairs. The movement tasks will be informed by: physical attachment and restriction of the body and space and text & memory focused physical exercises, relying on a creative devising process from the participants.
The workshop will be led by Junk Ensemble Directors Jessica & Megan Kennedy.
About Junk Ensumble
Junk Ensemble is a multi-award winning Dublin-based dance theatre company founded by identical twin sisters Megan Kennedy and Jessica Kennedy. The company is committed to engaging diverse audiences through the creation and presentation of brave, imaginative, and accessible work that sheds light on important human issues relevant today. Current Aerowaves Europe Artists, Associate Artists at Project Arts Centre, Resident Artists at Rua Red Gallery, and previous Artists-in-Residence at The Tate, Junk Ensemble has built a reputation as one of Ireland’s leading voices in dance. JE frequently collaborates with artists from other disciplines to produce a rich mix of visual and performance styles that challenge the traditional audience/performer relationship. This approach has led to productions being created in non-traditional or found spaces as well as more conventional theatre spaces. The company often work directly with communities in the creation and performance of their work.
Their work has toured to New York, Europe, UK & Ireland. Recent productions include Dances Like A Bomb, DOLORES, Powerful Trouble, Ritual, The Cold Sings, Crossing Skin, The Misunderstanding of Myrrha, The Veiled Ones, A Different Wolf, The Bystander, Man at the Door, Soldier Still.
Choreography for film includes It Is In Us All (dir. Antonia Campbell Hughes), The Tower (dir. Jesse Jones), Wildfire (dir. Cathy Brady), In Velvet (Junk Ensemble), Five Letters to the Stranger Who Will Dissect My Brain (dir. Oonagh Kearney), Fallow Table (Junk Ensemble). Choreography for theatre includes The Last Return (Druid Theatre), What Did I Miss (The Ark).
www.junkensemble.com
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