Junk Ensemble

02/06/2026

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.

02/06/2026

🔅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

🔅Devising for Dance Workshop by Junk Ensemble 🔅

As part of the SUMER WORKSHOP SERIES, Dance Ireland invites you to join Junk Ensemble for their workshop:

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 & 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.

Whether you’re a professional dancer, emerging artist or pre-professional (age 16+), there’s something in the line-up for you.

📆 Monday 22 June

🎟 €40 DI Professional Member / €30 DI Pre Professional Members / €55 Non Members

💥Dual Workshop Package (Junk Ensemble and Safire Hikari) €93.50

✨ Safire ScArlet Hikari Partnering Dance. Monday 29 June

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

Image: Junk Ensemble

This workshop is supported by the The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon

20/05/2026

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.

16/05/2026

★★★★ '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

27/04/2026

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.

13/04/2026

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

11/04/2026

The street dance community is coming together today to support Tobi Omoteso.
Join the community at Drop Studios (Dublin) for a full day of workshops as part of their
fundraiser: We Move From Love - Saturday 11th April from 12pm at Drop Studios, D01
VY42, Dublin.
Sign up via the link: https://forms.gle/Zk6cdYc8Y29jdHTb6
Ages 16+ | €10 per class or €50 for a full class pass (paid directly to the GoFundMe).
Any questions, contact .
If you can’t attend, please consider donating via the GoFundMe link in their bio.
More events and opportunities to support will be announced in the coming weeks.

16/02/2026

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

13/02/2026

CLOSING PERFORMANCE TOMORROW: PATIENT LABYRINTH at Rua Red.

The exhibition space will be open for the final time tomorrow, Saturday the 14th from 10am–6pm.

To mark the closing of the exhibition, there will be a live performance (2–3pm) by Junk Ensemble, performed by dance artist Róisín Harten.

Video by Luca Truffarelli

https://www.ruared.ie/exhibitions/patient-labyrinth

12/02/2026

📷 Details inside PATIENT LABYRINTH at Rua Red.

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

Images by Luca Truffarelli.