Award-winning dance innovators Junk Ensemble, alongside an international team of artists and in association with Solas Nua, bring the world premiere of STORM 1.0 to Dublin Dance Festival 2026.
Samuel Beckett Theatre, Trinity College Dublin | Wednesday, May 6 to Friday, May 8 at 7:30 p.m. | Tickets: Preview €18 (May 6) / €25 full price / €22 conc. | 70 mins (no interval)
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.
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.
