STORM 1.0 Junk Ensemble
World Premiere
Ireland
Award-winning dance innovators Junk Ensemble, alongside an international team of artists, bring the world premiere of STORM 1.0 to DDF2026.
70 mins (no interval)
Wed 06—Fri 08 May 2026
About
Set inside a building that can no longer protect them, two dancers and a tuba player navigate a shifting, unsteady world. Wind pushes through every seam. Plastic takes on new life. Objects refuse to stay put. The walls themselves seem to breathe as the storm seeps into the architecture and the bodies within it. Covered in debris, the dancers collide, fall and rise again – heroic and triumphant.
Humour leaks through the cracks. Absurdity becomes armour. Resistance takes on strange, comic forms. Hope seeps into the mess through gestures of intimacy and care, as the storm refuses to pass.
Through relentless physicality, accumulation and collapse, STORM 1.0 is an uncompromising meditation on endurance and what it means to continue together in a world that refuses to be repaired.
Access
Live audio description (via headsets) and a pre-show touch tour is available for the performance on Fri 8 May at 7:30pm.
To register, please contact our Box Office Manager, Lorna on boxoffice@dublindancefestival.ie / +353 1 673 0660.
Advisories
This performance contains loud noise, haze and smoke effects.
Credits
- Concept and Creation Jessica Kennedy, Megan Kennedy
- Choreography Jessica Kennedy, Megan Kennedy in collaboration with the performers
- Dancers Imogen Alvares, Amir Sabra
- Musician Les Neish
- 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
- Chief LX Eoin Winning
- JE Communications Manager Sally McCarthy
- Photography Fionn McCann
- Videography Eóin Heaney
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, Shawbrook Creative Space, Axis Ballymun
This performance is presented in association with Cairde Sligo Arts Festival.
Photo Gallery
The Kennedy twins have been crafting works of oblique and beautiful weirdness for many years.
The Irish Times
★★★★ Junk Ensemble has created some of the most impressive contemporary dance in Ireland… Enthralling and exact.
The Sunday Times
★★★★ Sublime choreography… Junk Ensemble confirm their status as one of dance’s true innovators and originators.
The Arts Review on ‘Powerful Trouble’
★★★★★ Surreal, beautiful and extraordinarily human.
The List on ‘Dances Like A Bomb’
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