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Ritual

Creation and Direction: Jessica Kennedy, Megan Kennedy

Choreography created in collaboration with dancers

Dance Artists: Salma Ataya, Lucia Kickham, Julie Koenig

Collaborating Artists: Aideen Barry, Jesse Jones, Planningtorock

Musician and Improvisor: Caitríona Frost

Music: Irene Buckley

Lighting Design & Scenography: Sarah Jane Shiels

Costume Design: Katie Davenport

Costume Assistant: James Seaver

Additional composition: Planningtorock

Stage Manager: Miriam Duffy

Assistant Stage Manager: Muireann Ní Raghallaigh

Head Carpenter: Mark Fennell

Chief LX: Sarah Timmins

Production Audio: Daragh Murphy

Audio Engineer: Cormac O’Connor

Riggers: Emerald Isle Rigging

Production Manager: Brendan McLoughlin

Associate Producer: Michelle Cahill

Producer: Gwen Van Spÿk

Cork Midsummer Festival 2023

Highly visual live performance installation from multi-award-winning dance innovators Junk Ensemble in collaboration with acclaimed visual artists Jesse Jones and Aideen Barry. Also featuring music artist Planningtorock, composer Irene Buckley and designers Sarah Jane Shiels and Katie Davenport, Junk Ensemble offers an immersive new spectacle for audiences.

Led by dancers and musicians, audiences will move promenade-style through the atmospheric Marina Market warehouse and experience a collision of artists’ responses, interrogations, and radical celebrations of the witch as a symbol of dissidence. Merging visceral movement, striking visuals and live sound, RITUAL is a disturbance, a happening, an unveiling of an experiment unique to Cork Midsummer Festival.

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‘Abstract, strange, and murky, the various strands of Ritual have been brought together into something that works brilliantly as an artistic whole.’

 ★★★★ - The Irish Examiner