Mikel Murfi and Finola Cronin bring uplifting dance theatre show to Sligo stage

DANCES Like a Bomb, a powerful, uplifting duet exploring ageing and care by dance-theatre innovators Junk Ensemble, is returning to Ireland after its critical triumph at Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

The 8-venue tour is coming to Sligo with a performance at Hawk's Wall Theatre on Saturday, February 3.

Featuring acclaimed actor, Sligo-born

Mikel Murfi and leading dance artist Finola Cronin (formerly of Pina Bausch's Tanztheater Wuppertal), Dances Like a Bomb is a reclaiming of the ageing body, blending visceral imagery, dance, and music.

Celebrating the strength of mature bodies and challenging the cult of youth, the performers are heroic, vulnerable, comedic, and completely themselves in the work.

They care fiercely for each other and defend their independence. As they hold each other up and push each other down, the 'performance' of age is unpacked as a reminder of ourselves: our worst and our best.

The production's Co-Directors, Megan and Jessica Kennedy of Junk Ensemble, say, “We are delighted to bring Dances Like a Bomb back on the road, and particularly to audiences in Ireland where the show was originally created.

“The themes explored in the show are universally pertinent - there is a universality to ageing; it happens to all of us.

“It is inscribed on our bodies. Some of us deny age, some of us pre-empt it. The performers make each other laugh, they bicker, they question their own lives and each other's, they rail and rage against their ‘declining' bodies, they intuit what their bodies need and feel. They remind us of ourselves: our vulnerability, our defiance, the things we would take back and the things we want to see.”

Tickets for this show are €16 and can be purchased by calling 071-9161518 or online at www.hawkswell.com.