Originate – Performance Showcase Amir Sabra | Luke Murphy – Attic Projects | Junk Ensemble

With a programme that includes excerpts from recent choreographies as well as new works-in-development, the Originate – Performance Showcase offers Ireland-based artists a valuable platform to present their work, and offers audiences and programmers an exciting opportunity to experience new Irish choreographies.

This year’s Originate – Performance Showcase will include:

Amir Sabra
Within This Party

Within This Party searches for the personal and the intimate within the collective. It continues Amir Sabra’s exploration of that elusive and distinctive quality that can take familiar movements and gestures, and transform them into something individual and unique. Drawing on hip hop and Dabkeh – a traditional Palestinian dance – Within This Party is an improvisational work that seeks creative and personal ways to build a choreography.

Luke Murphy – Attic Projects
Scorched Earth

A century after finding independence, the ghosts of our history linger and question: What connection do we have to our land? And to our neighbours we share it with? Inspired by John B Keane’s seminal work The Field, Scorched Earth imagines the aftermath of a murder, with the new owner of a piece of land found dead and the former tenant the prime suspect. Psychological thriller meets primal physical fantasy as themes of ambition, entitlement and resentment lead to a poetic final chapter that reflects the cost of success and questions what right we have to the land beneath our feet.


Junk Ensemble
Powerful Trouble

Powerful Trouble is a highly visual live performance installation from renowned dance innovators Junk Ensemble in collaboration with acclaimed artists Jesse Jones, Aideen Barry, Vicky Langan, and Planningtorock. This immersive promenade spectacle is a celebration of the witch as a symbol of dissidence and was originally presented at the RHA Gallery as part of Dublin Theatre Festival 2023. Powerful Trouble is a disturbance – a collision of artists’ creative explorations marked by muscular choreography, euphoric beats, and visceral imagery.