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]
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.
Pressedit
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]
Productionsedit
Productions are listed with the year and venue of their debut.[8]
^DeFrantz, Thomas F.; Rothfield, Philipa (14 September 2016). Choreography and Corporeality: Relay in Motion. Springer. p. 197. ISBN9781137546531.
^McGrath, Aoife; Meehan, Emma (29 November 2017). Dance Matters in Ireland: Contemporary Dance Performance and Practice. Springer. p. 108. ISBN9783319667393.
^"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.
External linksedit
Official website
January 01, 1970
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