Drinking Dust
Paris, France
20 - 21 Nov '09
Come to a lost place. junk ensemble (Winner Culture Ireland Touring Award 2008 and Excellence and Innovation Award 2007) presents Drinking Dust, a haunting dance theatre piece that pulls the cracked memories and forgotten people back in our life. This is a broken story in a burnt-out building. This is the gritty place that you left behind. ‘junk ensemble have guts and ingenuity’ The Irish Times.
Background Information
Megan and Jessica Kennedy co-founded junk ensemble in 2004, committed to creating works of unconventional and gutsy dance theatre. Works include the site-specific piece The Rain Party (Winner Excellence and Innovation Award 2007), Drowning Memory in a Bowl (International Dance Festival 2006), Circus Freak, and Watch Her Disappear which have toured nationally and internationally. Other choreographies include This Is Still Life (Brokentalkers), eX Vocal Ensemble (2007), The Caucasion Chalk Circle (Trinity School of Drama 2006) and Daniel Figgis’ Opera for Dance The Banquet (2006). junk ensemble’s Drinking Dust was listed as an Irish Times Highlight for 2008. junk ensemble are Associate Artists to Project Arts Centre, Dublin.
Press reviews:
Drinking Dust is confident, winding up to a dust-strewn finale.' The Irish Times *****
'Razor sharp with detail...suitably bittersweet...utterly intuitive.' The Metro ****
'All we want is to sneak in closer...the dancers are compelling.' Irish Theatre Magazine ****
Event Details
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- Centre Culturel Irlandais
- Choreographer
- Megan and Jessica Kennedy
- Address
- 5 Rue des Irlandais
Paris
75005
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