Dances Like A Bomb

Upcoming Performances

Irish Tour
17 September 2025 – Lime Tree Theatre, Limerick Tickets
24 September 2025 – glór, Ennis Tickets
27 September 2025 - Garter Lane Arts Centre, Waterford Tickets
30 September 2025 & 1 October - Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray Tickets
3 October 2025 - Tipperary Dance Festival Tickets

STEPS Festival, Switzerland
12 March 2026 – Dampfzentrale, Bern
18 March 2026 – Gessnerallee, Zürich
21 March 2026 – Teatro Social, Bellinzona
25 March 2026 – Bühne Aarau Reithalle, Aarau
27 March 2026 – Theater du Passage, Neuchatel
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Past Performances

Krakow Dance Festival
6 August 2025 in Krakow, Poland

Aerowaves Spring Forward Festival 2025
24 – 26 April in Gorizia, Italy  

Ireland & UK Tour 2024
January – April

Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2023
15 – 27 August at ZOO Venues

Dublin Dance Festival 2022
May 25 & 26 at Project Arts Centre

About

Dances Like A Bomb is a reclaiming of the ageing body by multi-award-winning dance innovators Junk Ensemble, performed by leading dance artists Finola Cronin (formerly of Pina Bausch’s Tanztheater Wuppertal) and Luc Dunberry (formerly of Sascha Waltz & Guests). Celebrating the strength and beauty of mature bodies and challenging the cult of youth, the performers are heroic, vulnerable, comedic, acerbic, and completely themselves. They care fiercely for each other and defend their independence. As they hold each other up and push each other down, the universality of ageing and the ‘performance’ of age is unpacked, alongside the limits of love and care. 

THE LIST ★★★★★ ‘Surreal, beautiful and extraordinarily human’
‘This is a piece whose beauty and complexity demonstrate exactly why older artists, whatevertheir discipline, should never be underestimated’

THE ARTS REVIEW ★★★★★ ‘Profound in its simplicity, finding beauty in the banal, showing strength in delicacy. Nothing shortof extraordinary.’

THE TIMES ★★★★ 'Big, powerful ... these two people own the stage and have earned the right to be there.'

THE STAGE ★★★★ ‘Intriguing … clever … poignant' 
'A tender piece … outstanding’

THE GUARDIAN ‘Macabre and comical … a delight’

THE SCOTSMAN ‘Compelling ... real poignancy'

THE IRISH TIMES ‘Superb performers… a heartfelt celebration of two people growing old together.’