Junk Ensemble is an award-winning Dublin-based dance company founded by joint Artistic Directors and identical twin sisters Megan Kennedy and Jessica Kennedy to create works of brave and imaginative dance theatre. Previous Artists in Residence at Tate Britain and currently Cork D
Arts | Education | Theater
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The “Art, Activism, and the Environment” project culminated at UCC in June 2019 as part of the Dept. of Theatre research and collaboration across communities and continents. Beginning in 2016 with embodied arts based research into what it means to be a body (mostly) made of water
Arts | Education | Teaching
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DANCING ABOUT ARCHITECTURE: A performative interdisciplinary workshop on Dance, Somatic Practices, Architecture & Engineering Principal Investigator: Professor Jools Gilson Funded by the Irish Research Council’s Creative Connections strand, Dancing About Architecture was
Arts | Education | Teaching
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Article which documents the process by which the solo dance work Unfolding was devised and performed in December 2016, marking the culmination of the three-year term of Lisa Cahill as Dance Artist in Residence at Maynooth University Froebel Department of Primary and Early Childh
Dance | Contemporary Dance | Dance in education
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Video of performance of Unfolding by Dance Artist in Residence, Lisa Cahill at Maynooth University Froebel Department on 16th December 2016. Filmed by Frameit Productions, Kildare
Dance | Dance in education | Performance
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Funded by the Irish Research Council’s Creative Connections strand, Dancing About Architecture was a unique workshop within the Irish and international research ecology since it proposed the methodologies and sensibilities of Dance / Choreographic / Somatic Practices as tools for
Arts | Education | Teaching
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The 16th, 17th (St Patrick's Day) and 18th March comprises cameos (dancing, lovers' trysts, music making, storytelling, hawking etc.) that appear as subjects in their own right in other, smaller works by Nicol. One of most prominent interplays between characters in the painting i
A Sense of Place | Saint Patrick's Day | Manners and customs
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The Kilmackillogue Pattern refers to the religious devotions that take place in July, celebrating the feast day of Saint Killian. This image also features a cargo boat.
A Sense of Place | Manners and customs | City & town life
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Child’s dancing costume in green fabric, embroidered with Celtic motif, with crochet collar and cuffs. Cape lined with orange fabric and white belt complete the colours of Ireland as seen on the national flag. Dancers traditionally wore their 'Sunday best' but this develope
A Sense of Identity | Manners and customs | Dance
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