SHOUT
SHOUT is a collaboration between dancer Jens Trinidad and musician Marcus Amadeus. The performance is rooted in a shared interest in how music, sound, and vibrations inhabit the body, influencing, shaping, and moving it. Drawing inspiration from club music, dance-offs, lamentation, and "praise breaks," with Missy Elliot as the project's "holy spirit," SHOUT creates an unfiltered, soulful expression with rhythmic drive and transcendent flow.
The performance bears a clear imprint of the artists' collective background in street dance, hip-hop, and club culture, yet it simultaneously resists genre-based and gendered conventions. Trinidad and Amadeus work with repetitions, shifts, and transformations through movement and music, conjuring a power that challenges categorization as club culture or contemporary dance, masculine or feminine. The visual expression of the performance reinforces the desire for transgression by working both with and against expectations.
SHOUT carries an inner activism that questions what is valued, by whom, and where; which bodies, movements, sounds, practices, cultures, and experiences? Trinidad and Amadeus are committed to working on their own terms. For their first collaborative project, they chose to operate outside established theater institutions and instead create and present the performance at the independent venue Scenehuset. Five out of a total of six performances sold out.
By Jens Trinidad (concept, choreography and dance)
in collaboration with
Marcus Amadeus (musician and composer)
Scenography: Kjersti Alm Eriksen
Lightdesign: Elisabeth Kjeldahl Nilsson
Dramaturg: Melanie Fieldseth
Outside eye: Magnus Myhr
Production: Jens Jeffry Trinidad
Producer: Ida Louise Sundby
Photo & Video: Sindre Vik
Supported by: Norwegian Arts Council, Oslo Kommune Municipality, and The Funds for Performing Artists
COMPASSION STORIES
COMPASSION STORIES is an interactive dance performance that activates the audience's energy and emotions through a combination of performance and workshop, with a target group of age between 8-10 years old.
In the workshop section, children are guided through simple physical tasks that they later encounter in the performance section. These tasks are designed to build trust so that children can feel safe when interacting with the performers and each other.
The performance is a collaboration between dance artists Jon Filip Fahlstrøm and Jens Jeffry Trinidad. They draw inspiration from concepts such as the mosh pit. This concept is typically encountered at metal concerts, where the audience releases energy and aggression through free movement. Throughout the performance, they also aim to let children experience how physical contact through bumping with high energy, leaning and lifting exercises with another energy, and dance have much in common through physically sharing it. Underlying this is trust as a fundamental element. Trust also creates the freedom to express oneself. This is possible because some guidelines are shared, by supporting each other and allowing room for each other's physical expressions. It's also a way to connect with each other's energy to accumulate an even higher energy level and a stronger awareness that we are in this together, something Fahlstrøm and Trinidad wish to emphasize.
For Fahlstrøm and Trinidad, it's important to highlight that great energy and power can be experienced as something positive and a resource for children, and that the sensation it creates in the body is something one can become familiar with and confident about.
In COMPASSION STORIES, the audience gets to be physically active and engaged, and can explore how their own energy and emotions resonate with what is presented through the performance! It provides an opportunity to express oneself in an exciting and creative way.
Compassion Stories premiered at Kloden on January 13, 2024.
CREDITS:
With and by: Jon Filip Fahlstrøm and Jens Jeffry Trinidad
Music: Peter Baden and Knut Sævik
Outside Eye: Loan Ha
Supported by: Spenn, Arts Council Norway (Kulturrådet), and FFUK (Fond for utøvende kunstnere)
Residency: Dans i Trøndelag
Co-producer: Kloden Theatre
Documentation: Elin Osjord
LABYRINT
"Labyrint" is an interactive street dance performance with three dancers, where students are introduced to hip-hop. The goal is to create trust within the group, erasing the boundaries between the dancers and the students.
The project was produced by Akershus County Municipality in 2019, in collaboration with Jens Trinidad and Christine Nypan, created together with Mathias Jin Budtz and Marikken Heitkøtter. The performance has toured in Østfold, the Western Region, Finnmark, Akershus, Oslo, and has scheduled dates until summer 2025 with "Den Kulturelle Skolesekken" (The Cultural Rucksack).
Music produced by Nikolai Nypan.
"Labyrint" focuses on themes such as closeness, unity, and belonging through club and street dance. Hip-hop culture is a widespread phenomenon that almost everyone grows up with in various ways. The connection to the culture can be through music, fashion, dance, or the political aspect.
Hip hop is about belonging, racism, counter-movements, and existence - with this performance, we aim to reinforce words and themes such as "empowerment," "claiming your existence," taking up space, "safe space," "community," and accessibility.
For us, this is a lifestyle, a joy but also a serious matter. Above all, we want students to feel mastery, belonging, and the experience of being seen in meeting with us
Supported by: Akershus Fylkeskommune, Fond for utøvende kunstnere, Scenekunstbruket (Spenn- tilrettelegging) & Fond for lyd og bilde (gjenopptakelse).
OTHERS´PROJECTS AS CO-CREATING PERFORMER: (CURRENT)
UNDERSANG (premiere may 30. - june 02. 2024)
Choreographer: Harald Beharie
Undersang is a tapestry of opulent configurations. A sculptural choir on floating sonic structures - singing beings, soaked in a shimmer of queer ecologies and extravagant gestures. A place where time dissolves, traditions bend, and dichotomies such as nature and society, civilized and uncivilized, synthetic and organic are obliterated. Undersang challenges the concept of hierarchy among beings, and speculates on the very essence of what is considered 'natural'.
LOOP (premiered February 29 2024)
Choreographer: Chriz Nypan
A bodily experience of rhythm and sound. Five dancers and two DJs, where bodies take the lead and create rhythm, sound, and music. Movement becomes music, and the body's musical echo builds the sound landscape that is manipulated 'live' on stage."
KNØ (premiered August 26 2023)
Choreographers: Pernille Holden and Ingeleiv Berstad
Production: Bananaz
KNØ is based on an idea that people's ways of existing in the world are primarily maintained by doing activities such as collecting, carrying, keeping, and sharing. We go to work physically with an interest in touching and exploring many different desires that can develop through this. With backs and knees that can withstand different loads, we pull and pull, fold and fold, carry and are carried in and out of rhythm.
JAM (premiered september 8. 2022)
Choreographer: Anne Golberg Stavn
JAM is an outdoor pop-up performance for a random audience. The performance explores and challenges the boundaries between dance as an art form and social dance, drawing from club and street dance culture. What is dance? Who defines what dance art is, and who is represented on stages? Who feels belonging to dance art?
SINNES (premiered May 6 2023)
Choreographer: Viktor Fröjd
Here you get to join a journey where the worlds of 6 dance artists meet through movement and conversation. An intimate, humorous experience that awakens the raw, the necessary, and the honest. The performance alternates between personal reflections on living a life in dance with razor-sharp choreography and unpredictable improvisation.
With an appreciation for the power of dance, we explore the path to honest listening, feeling, and taking our senses seriously.