postmodern cool - inés belli

premiered at dansens hus oslo, norway, 2nd of may 2019.

choreography: inés belli.

lighting design: martin myrvold.

costume design: signe vasshus.

sound design: terje wessel øverland.

music: jordan fields.

photos: yaniv cohen.

postmodern cool explores form, tradition and expectation in jazz dance with a postmodern look. the performance is inspired by the breakthrough of postmodernism with the ideals of modernism of truth, reason and freedom, and the need to free itself from structures in time. as postmodernism redefines borders and genres of its time, postmodern cool is an attempt to renegotiate the aesthetic and hierarchical regimes that have historically been strong in jazz dance. in this debate between contemporary needs and the traditions of the past, new expressions and aesthetic ideals arise that are both in relation and contrast to the current view of what jazz dance is and can be.