Tickets
Duration: 60 minutes
Language: spoken texts in English
Age: 12 years and older
Content notes: none
As part of Migros Culture Percentage Dance Festival Steps
Dances Like a Bomb is a duet that tackles the subject of age(ing) and care with humour and tenderness. Behind this successful production are Irish twin sisters Jessica and Megan Kennedy from Junk Ensemble. Together with performers Finola Cronin and Mikel Murfi, they have created a dance theatre piece that offers insight into the relationship between two older people: former Pina Bausch dancer and actor Luc Dunberry meet in a dark room.
What unfolds over the course of the following hour is an entertaining sequence of short scenes that culminate in a devoted and touching evening of dance: sometimes theatrical, sometimes vulnerable and often hilarious. For as intense as their feelings for each other are, they are equally determined to defend their independence. As they lift each other up only to push each other back down again, age becomes a ‘performance’ and reveals something deeply human: our worst and our best sides.
Credits
Concept and direction: Jessica Kennedy, Megan Kennedy
Choreography: Jessica Kennedy & Megan Kennedy in collaboration with the troupe
Dancers: Finola Cronin, Luc Dunberry
Set design: Sabine Dargent
Music: Denis Clohessy
Lighting design: Stephen Dodd
Costume design: Saileóg O’Halloran
Producer: Ciara Lynch
Text: Finola Cronin, Luc Dunberry, Mikel Murfi
Voice coach: Andrea Ainsworth
Production manager: Simon Bird
Stage manager: Marella Boschi
Photography: Fionn McCann, Luca Truffarelli
Supported by: Arts Council of Ireland and Culture Ireland, An Chomhairle Ealaíon Touring Award with support from Dance Ireland. Initial support from Dublin Dance Festival, Shawbrook Dance and Dublin City Council.
Wolrd premiere: 25 May 2022, Dublin Dance Festival
