Junk Ensemble

Shouting out the incredible team behind STORM 1.0.

Thank you to the artists, collaborators, makers and thinkers who helped bring in the storm.

Cast, Crew & Creative Team:
Concept and Creation: Jessica Kennedy, Megan Kennedy
Choreography: Jessica Kennedy, Megan Kennedy in collaboration with the dancers
Performers: Imogen Alvares, Les Neish, Amir Sabra
Scenography: Morgana Machado Marques
Lighting: Stephen Dodd
Music: Denis Clohessy
Costume: Sarah Bacon
Dramaturgy: Rex Daugherty
Producer: Ciara Lynch
Production Managers: Simon Bird, Olivia Drennan
Stage Manager: Miriam Duffy
Assistant Stage Manager: Bianca Baguio
Scenography Assistant: Ariadna Konaškova
Chief LX: Eoin Winning
Sound Engineer: Jack Cawley
Sound Design Assistant: Jack Foster
Communications Manager: Sally McCarthy
Promotional Images: Fionn McCann
Production Images & Video Documentation: Luca Truffarelli
Trailer Video: Eóin Heaney
Trailer Music: Feral Torch

A special thanks to the funders and supporters of this project: The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon, Rua Red South Dublin Arts Centre, Cairde Arts Festival Sligo, Dublin Dance Festival, Shawbrook Creative Space, Axis Ballymun.

🔅Devising for Dance Workshop by Junk Ensemble 🔅

This Dance Ireland 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 & space, and sensory focused physical prompts. For the latter part of the workshop, participants will create short solo/group pieces to be performed in specific spaces they have chosen within the building, inviting an opportunity for the site to inform the movement.

Find out more: https://tinyurl.com/3mmjbfxr

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What a way to premiere STORM 1.0 – thank you Dublin Dance Festival.

We’re so grateful to have shared this work with audiences in our home city, and to everyone who helped bring it to life along the way. Endless thanks to our cast, crew, collaborators, and the festival team for all the care, energy, and hard work behind the scenes.

Special thanks to The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon for supporting the project.

Created in association with Solas Nua Inc., Washington D.C. With support from Rua Red South Dublin Arts Centre, Cairde Arts Festival Sligo, Dublin Dance Festival, Shawbrook Creative Space, and Axis Ballymun.

NEXT UP: STORM 1.0 at Cairde Arts Festival Sligo – Thursday 9 July.

Photographer: Luca Truffarelli.

★★★★ 'Visually arresting... tender and intimate' – The Irish Times on STORM 1.0.

Big thank you to everyone who joined us for the premiere run at Dublin Dance Festival last week. It was a pleasure to share this work with audiences for the first time.

Another storm is ahead at Sligo’s Cairde Arts Festival, 9 July.

Funded by The Arts Council of Ireland | An Chomhairle Ealaíon. In association with Solas Nua, Washington D.C. Supported by Rua Red South Dublin Arts Centre, Cairde Sligo Arts Festival, Dublin Dance Festival, Shawbrook Creative Space, Axis Ballymun.

https://www.cairdefestival.com/2026/storm-10

What do we do when the storm refuses to pass?

After Dublin Dance Festival, ‘STORM 1.0’ will travel to Cairde Arts Festival for one special performance at the Hawk’s Well Theatre.

A single date, a special setting, and a festival we love coming back to.

Funded by The Arts Council of Ireland | An Chomhairle Ealaíon. In association with Solas Nua, Washington D.C. Supported by Rua Red South Dublin Arts Centre, Cairde Sligo Arts Festival, Dublin Dance Festival, Shawbrook Creative Space, Axis Ballymun.

Image by Fionn McCann.

In ‘STORM 1.0’, resistance takes on strange, comic forms. See the world premiere at Dublin Dance Festival this May.

Funded by The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon . In association with Solas Nua Inc., Washington D.C. Supported by Rua Red South Dublin Arts Centre, Cairde Arts Festival, Dublin Dance Festival, Shawbrook Creative Space, & Axis Ballymun .

Image by Fionn McCann.

https://www.dublindancefestival.ie/events/programme/storm-1-0

We’re thrilled to be taking ‘Dances Like A Bomb’ to Switzerland next month for a number of performances as part of Steps Dance Festival.

Performed by Finola Cronin and Luc Dunberry.

Tickets available here: https://www.steps.ch/en/programme/junk-ensemble

📷 Details inside PATIENT LABYRINTH at Rua Red.

Discover it yourself before the exhibition closes this Saturday, February 14th.

Images by Luca Truffarelli.