Junk Ensemble Workshop

JUNK ENSEMBLE WORKSHOP

Saturday 18th & Sunday 19th January 2025

Tutors: Megan & Jessica Kennedy

Venue: The Factory Performance Space, Sligo, Ireland

Time : 10.00 – 16.00

Fee: €200

Junk Ensemble Co-Directors Megan and Jessica Kennedy will lead the workshop, exploring devising tools and devising tasks throughout both days with an eye to creating dance theatre and site responsive work. Open to all ages and disciplines.

Junk Ensemble is a multi-award winning Dublin-based dance theatre company founded by 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 to society today. Current Associate Artists at Project Arts Centre and previous Artists-in-Residence at The Tate, Junk Ensemble has built a reputation as one of Ireland’s leading voices in dance. Junk Ensemble 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. Junk Ensemble recent productions include Powerful Trouble (Dublin Theatre Festival 2023), Ritual (Cork Midsummer Festival 2023), Dances Like a Bomb (Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2023/Dublin Dance Festival 2022), The Cold Sings (Dublin Theatre Festival 2022), Crossing Skin (Cairde Sligo Arts Festival 2022), The Misunderstanding of Myrrha (Dublin Dance Festival 2021/Mermaid Arts Centre 2020), The Veiled Ones (Baboró International Arts Festival for Children 2021/Dublin Fringe Festival 2021), A Different Wolf (Cork Opera House/Cork Midsummer Festival 2019), The Bystander (Dublin Theatre Festival 2018), Dolores (Dublin Dance Festival 2018), Man at the Door/Cork Midsummer Festival 2018), Soldier Still (Irish Tour 2018/Belfast Festival/Dublin Fringe 2017). 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).