Postmodern Cool

Postmodern Cool explores form, tradition and expectation in jazz dance from a postmodern perspective. The production was inspired by postmodernism’s break with the ideals of modernism in terms of truth, reason and freedom, and the need to break free from the structures of the period.

Just as postmodernism redefined the boundaries and genres of its period, Postmodern Cool is an attempt at renegotiating the aesthetic and hierarchical regimes which have historically remained strong in jazz dance.

In this debate between the needs of the present and the traditions of the past, new expressions and aesthetic ideals arise which are both in relation to and in contrast to the current perception of what jazz dance is and can be.

Choreographer Inés Belli

Performers Trude Amelie Leirpoll, Trine Lise Moe, Sara Enger Larsen, Henriette Hamli & Hedda Rivrud

Light design Martin Myrvold

Music Jordan Fields og Benny Goodman

Costume Signe Vasshus

Artistic councellor Ingri Fiskdal

Production assistent Marit Falla Eriksen

Sound design Terje Wessel Øverland

Photo Yaniv Cohen, Tale Hendnes/ Dansens Hus

Postmodern Cool was part of «Koreografilaboratoriet» at Dansens Hus, Oslo in May 2018 and premiered 02.05.19.

Supported by Norsk Kulturråd (Arts Council Norway), Fond for lyd og bilde, Fond for utøvende kunstnere.