Last time we did it was 2024. That time we painted a Canva to our minister of Culture (that hate culture), we danced linedance, camped, entered the Micro universe by Linda Hayford, experienced Afro futuristic queer Krump solo and partying with the performance FESTEN. It's already clear that we'll show the performance SHOUT, stay tuned for what's more to come this year!
SHOUT is a collaboration between dancer Jens Jeffry Trinidad and musician Marcus Amadeus that explores how music, sound, and vibration inhabit and move the body, drawing on influences from club culture, dance-offs, lamentation, and praise breaks.
SHOUT is a collaboration between dancer Jens Jeffry Trinidad (NO) and musician Marcus Amadeus (PT).
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 cworking both with and against Expectations.
Jens Jeffry Trinidad is a Filipino-Norwegian performing dance artist who began his journey in hip-hop in the late 90s at X-Ray Youth Culture House in Oslo, and has been working as a dancer for almost 20 years. Marcus Amadeus is a self-taught musician and composer born in the city of Porto, as well as a producer and sound designer with two album releases.
Together, they approach this piece, choreography and soundscape through vibration, frequency, and a porous physicality rooted in sensuality.
Concept, choreography and performer: Jens Jeffry Trinidad
Musician, composer and performer: Marcus Amadeus
Dramaturgy/outside eye: Melanie Fieldseth
Scenographer: Kjersti Alm Eriksen
Lightdesign: Elisabeth Kjeldahl Nilsson
Outside and inside eye: Magnus Myhr
Tour tech: Olav Nordhagen
Film & foto: Sindre Eriksson Vik
Funded by: Norwegian Arts Council, The Fund for Performing Artists, Municipality of Oslo.