How is sound felt in the body, and what happens when it takes over? In SHOUT, dancer Jens Jeffry Trinidad and musician Marcus Amadeus come together in an intense and sensory exploration of how music, rhythm and vibration shape, move and transform the body.
Drawing inspiration from club music, dance competitions, laments and ‘praise breaks’, SHOUT unfolds a raw and immediate expression with a strong rhythmic pulse and an almost trance-like energy. With Missy Elliott as a kind of ‘spiritual reference’, the work moves between the earthly and the ecstatic, between control and surrender.
The performance draws clear lines from the artists’ shared background in street dance, hip-hop and club culture, yet simultaneously insists on escaping fixed categories. Through repetitions, shifts and transformations, a choreographic and musical language emerges that challenges divisions such as concert and performance, masculine and feminine, club and contemporary dance.
SHOUT embodies an inner activism that questions what and who is valued: Which bodies, movements and practices are given space, and under what conditions? For their first collaborative work, Trinidad and Amadeus chose to work outside established institutions and instead create the performance at (the independent venue) Scenehuset in Oslo.
The result is a performance that emphasises presence, power and sensitivity, and which opens up a physical experience of sound’s ability to connect, displace and transform.
Dansehallerne present SHOUT as part of the festival OPENINGS. With the festival, we open up for top-class international performances and strong national talents. For a wide spectrum of dancing bodies: older bodies, smaller bodies, bodies of different shapes and colors. For the iconic and the surprising. For other perspectives. OPENINGS celebrates the joy of dance and makes dance accessible to everyone.
SHOUT and OPENINGS is part of yes – dance biennale 2026.
About
Jens Jeffry Trinidad is a Filipino-Norwegian dance artist with roots in street and club dance. He began his career in the hip-hop scene in Oslo in the late 1990s and has since worked as a performer, teacher and choreographer in both the performing arts and television. He has collaborated with a number of prominent artists and, in 2024, received the Rolf Gammeleng Prize for his contribution to the performing arts.
Marcus Amadeus is a musician and composer from Porto. His practice stems from an early interest in digital music production and a cross-aesthetic approach, where structures from architecture and sound merge. Today, he works internationally with composition, performance and sound design, focusing on sound’s ability to shape experience and emotion.
Credits
CONCEPT, CHOREOGRAPHY & PERFORMANCE: Jens Jeffry Trinidad
MUSICIAN, COMPOSER & PERFORMANCE: Marcus Amadeus
DRAMATURGY / OUTSIDE EYE: Melanie Fieldseth
SET DESIGN: Kjersti Alm Eriksen
LIGHTING DESIGN: Elisabeth Kjeldahl Nilsson
OUTSIDE & INSIDE EYE: Magnus Myhr
FILM & PHOTOGRAPHY: Sindre Eriksson Vik
SUPPORTED BY: Norwegian Arts Council, The Fund for Performing Artists, Municipality of Oslo
