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.

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