Double Bill: Replicas and Dances Like A Bomb

REPLICAS

Replicas is a dance work that pushes back against a world that often feels increasingly confined. It offers a visceral, immediate response—one that escapes the bounds of logic and structure. This is dance that resists neat categorisation: it is physical, raw, spontaneous, sensitive and inconsistent. It invites dialogue rather than delivering answers. It doesn’t aim for perfection, but instead opens space for dreaming, unpredictability and freedom of thought.

The performance leaves room for the audience’s imagination to wander, welcoming ambiguity and even imperfection as valid and vital experiences.

Replicas will be part of a diptych in which two juxtaposed pieces will respond to each other: Replicas and Tremors.

CREDITS

A piece created by Alexandre Iseli, Murielle Elizéon, Eleni Roberts, Thomas Belhom

Artistic direction: Alexandre Iseli & Murielle Elizéon

Dance: Eleni Roberts

Music: Thomas Belhom

Costumes: Sarah Marguier

Producer: Greta Bourke

A Tipperary Dance Production

PARTNERS

Tanztendenz, Compagnie Marie Lenfant, Tipperary Dance Festival

Funded by the Arts Council, Tipperary County Council

Thanks to: Marie Lenfant, Thierry Mabon, La Fonderie, Ingrid Kalka

DANCES LIKE A BOMB

Junk Ensemble

Running time: 60 Minutes

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.

PRESS

Surreal, beautiful and extraordinarily human - THE LIST ★★★★★

Big, powerful - THE TIMES ★★★★

Intriguing... clever... poignant - THE STAGE ★★★★

Macabre and comical ... a delight - THE GUARDIAN

Superb performers… A heartfelt celebration of two people growing old together - THE IRISH TIMES ★★★★

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 O'Halloran

Text: Finola Cronin, Luc Dunberry, Mikel Murfi

Producer: Ciara Lynch

Voice Coach: Andrea Ainsworth

Production Manager: Simon Bird

Stage Manager: Marella Boschi

Set Build: Ger Clancy

Photography: Fionn McCann, Luca Truffarellli

PARTNERS

Funded by The Arts Council of Ireland Arts Grant Fund | An Chomhairle Ealaíon & Arts Council Touring Award with support from Dance Ireland.

Original support from Dublin Dance Festival, Shawbrook Dance, Dublin City Council.

Special thanks to Gwen Van Spÿk and Michelle Cahill.

Event Venue

STAC Chapel, Davis Road, Clonmel, Ireland