Jens Jeffry Trinidad is a Filipino-Norwegian performing and creative dance artist with a background from X-Ray Youth Culture House in Oslo, where he started with hip-hop in the late 90s, member of the crew Cre-8 (formerly Dancing Youth). He is rooted in street and club dance and has been freelancing in performing arts, TV, and teaching since 2006.

He has worked with choreographers such as Hooman Sharifi/Impure Company, Elle Sofe Sara, Manuel Pelmus, Panta Rei Dance Theatre, Rosalind Goldberg, Camilla Tellefsen, Chriz Nypan, Anne Golberg Stavn, Harald Beharie, Viktor Fröjd, Ingeleiv Berstad, and Pernille Holden.

In his independent projects and artistic works, Jens approaches choreography from an embodied and performative perspective, positioning the performing body as both the driving force of the creative process and the primary site of articulation on stage. Grounded in club and street dance practices, his work moves fluidly within the fields of contemporary dance and performance, where vernacular forms intersect with expanded choreographic and performative frameworks.

Trinidad was also involved in establishing MUD-Session Oslo (a concept by MAWU, NY) in 2015, and the street dance curriculum at Edvard Munch Secondary School in 2014.

Jens received the State Artist Grant from 2015 to 2017, and later from 2021 to 2023. Trinidad is also employed by Skuespiller - og danseralliansen. (Actor and Dancer Alliance.) Jens Jeffry Trinidad received the Rolf Gammeleng’s award 2024 - for meritorious efforts in stage performances.

In 2025, he was nominated for the Hedda Award for “Best Stage Performance”. Later that year, he received “Gulljerven”, a prize from Scenekunstbruket for “Artistic Achievement of the Year.”