The Dublin Dance Festival kicked off last Saturday evening with the first performance of Five Ways to Drown followed by the Bumper 2 Bumper headphone disco in conjunction with Phantom 105.2fm. Five Ways To Drown in the Project Arts Centre was choreographed and performed by Junk Ensemble. Junk Ensemble was established in 2004 by twin sisters Megan and Jessica Kennedy who were also joined in this performance by three other dancers. Five Ways To Drown is listed as something which: “looks into the interior of people’s lives and exposes the sadness, the absurdity and the banality through vignettes of dance and installation” The set in the Project was amazing, with the upstairs area having been transformed to have a central stage with a specially built staircase and the stage even had real grass! Alas, I had never been to see contemporary dance in this kind of format and I didn’t … There’s more →