SOLDIERS STILL: SET DESIGN

The artistic team:
Directors: Megan and Jessica Kennedy, artistic directors of Junk Ensemble
Lighting Design: Sarah Jane Shiels; Composition: Denis Clohessy; Costume Design: Sarah Foley; Dramaturg: Gary Keegan.
The show: “Soldiers Still” starting point were interviews of current and formers soldiers about the traumas of violence. Junk Ensemble’s twins directors Megan and Jessica extracted from those poignant testimonies a visceral visual poem using original dance, music and visual vocabulary.

The set was pure white. A protective white wall was constantly rejecting three liquid bright colors, which, once mixed by the dancers’ bodies became dirt, leaving traces, marks