Dances Like a Bomb

A powerful and uplifting duet exploring ageing and care. 

Blending visceral imagery, dance, text and music, Dances Like A Bomb is a reclaiming of the ageing body, created by multi-award-winning dance innovators Junk Ensemble.

Dances Like A Bomb is a reclaiming of the ageing body by multi-award-winning dance innovators Junk Ensemble, performed by leading dance artists Finola Cronin (formerly of Pina Bausch’s Tanztheater Wuppertal) and Luc Dunberry(formerly of Sascha Waltz & Guests). Celebrating the strength and beauty of mature bodies and challenging the cult of youth, the performers are heroic, vulnerable, comedic, acerbic, and completely themselves. They care fiercely for each other and defend their independence. As they hold each other up and push each other down, the universality of ageing and the ‘performance’ of age is unpacked, alongside the limits of love and care.

Video credit: Luca Truffarelli

Credits:

- Concept and Direction Jessica Kennedy, Megan Kennedy
- Choreography Jessica Kennedy, Megan Kennedy, created in collaboration with Finola Cronin, Mikel Murfi & Luc Dunberry
- Performers Finola Cronin, Luc Dunberry
- Set Design Sabine Dargent
- Music Denis Clohessy
- Lighting Design Stephen Dodd
- Costume Design Saileóg OHalloran
- Text Finola Cronin, Mikel Murfi

- Producer Ciara Lynch - Prior Producers Gwen van Spÿk, Michelle Cahill
- Voice Coach Andrea Ainsworth
- Production Manager Simon Bird
- Stage Manager Marella Boschi
- Set Build Ger Clancy
- Photography Fionn McCann, Luca Truffarellli

Funded by The Arts Council of Ireland Arts Grant Fund | An Chomhairle Ealaíon & Arts CouncilTouring Award with support from Dance Ireland. Original support from Dublin Dance Festival, Shawbrook Dance, Dublin City Council.