Junk Ensemble

Junk Ensemble (styled junk ensemble) is a dance theatre company, working in a genre related to Tanztheater. The company was established in 2004 by identical twin sisters Jessica Kennedy and Megan Kennedy.[1] The company is based in Dublin, Ireland and its work tours throughout Europe as well as in North America. Its productions focus on unique and original visuals and production methods.[2]

Awards

The company won the Dublin Fringe Festival Best Production Award in 2011 for its production Bird with boy,[3][4] and its production Drinking Dust was listed as an Irish Times Highlight in 2011. junk ensemble won the Culture Ireland Touring Award in 2008,[5] and its production The Rain Party won the Excellence and Innovation Award in 2007.

Press

The Sunday Times (UK) has written that "junk ensemble has created some of the most impressive contemporary dance in Ireland of recent years" [6] and Irish Theatre Magazine said that Junk Ensemble "do not disappoint in artistic experiment with bold visual staging and musical adventuring."[7]

Productions

Productions are listed with the year and venue of their debut.[8]

  • Dolores (2018) - Dublin Dance Festival[9]
  • Soldier Still (2017) - Dublin Fringe Festival
  • Walking Pale (2016) - Dublin Dance Festival
  • It Folds (2015) - Abbey Theatre, joint production with Brokentalkers
  • Dusk Ahead (2013) - Kilkenny Arts Festival
  • Blind Runner (2013), Dance Ireland, short film
  • The Falling Song (2012) - Dublin Dance Festival
  • Bird with Boy (2011) - Dublin Fringe Festival
  • Sometimes We Break (2012) - Tate Britain
  • Five Ways to Drown (2010) - Dublin Dance Festival
  • Pygmalian Revisited (2010) - Aix-en Provence Festival
  • Drinking Dust (2008)
  • The Rain Party (2007)

References
  1. DeFrantz, Thomas F.; Rothfield, Philipa (2016-09-14). Choreography and Corporeality: Relay in Motion. Springer. p. 197. ISBN 9781137546531.
  2. McGrath, Aoife; Meehan, Emma (2017-11-29). Dance Matters in Ireland: Contemporary Dance Performance and Practice. Springer. p. 108. ISBN 9783319667393.
  3. "Winners of Dublin Fringe Festival".
  4. "Irish Times interview with junk ensemble".
  5. "Irishtheatre.ie Company Listing".
  6. "The Falling Song press". Archived from the original on 2015-01-15.
  7. "Irish Theatre Magazine review of Falling Song". Archived from the original on 2015-01-15.
  8. "Junk Ensemble - About Us". www.junkensemble.com. Retrieved 2018-05-21.
  9. "Freeing Lolita from Nabokov's narrative clutches". The Irish Times. Retrieved 2018-05-21.
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