With Missy Elliot as the project’s “holy spirit” SHOUT is drawing its inspiration from club-music, dance-offs, lamentation, and “praise brakes” to find their rhythmic drive, unpolished power and transcending flow.
This dance performance is a collaboration between the dancer Jens Jeffry Trinidad and the musician Marcus Amadeus. They meet with a common interest in how music, sound and vibration takes hold of us and how it shapes and moves our body.
SHOUT has an inner activism that raises questions about what is given value – and by whom; what bodies, movements, sounds, cultures and experiences?
The performance is clearly inspired by the artists collective background in streetdance, hip hop and club culture, but still offers resistance towards gender and genre based conventions. The artists use repetitions, displacements and transformations through movement and music and conjures a force that challenges categories like contemporary dance or club culture – feminine or masculine. The show’s visual expression underpins the will to exceedance by moving with- and against expectations.
Choreography and performer: Jens Jeffry Trinidad, Musician, co-creator and performer: Marcus Amadeus, Dramaturgy and text: Melanie Fieldseth, Scenography: Kjersti Alm Eriksen, Sound design: Elisabeth Kjeldahl Nilsson, Tour technician: Olav Nordhagen, External eye: Magnus Myhr, Film and photo: Sindre Eriksson Vik, Producer: Jens Jeffry Trinidad, Ida Louise Sundby, Supported by: Kulturrådet, Fond for utøvende kunstnere og Oslo Kommune