Janne-Camilla Lyster (b. 1981) is a Norwegian choreographer, writer and performer. She gained her artistic PhD with the project «Choreographic poetry: Creating literary scores for dance», and has a particular interest in pre-figurative practices, including scores, experimental notation and notation systems for movement. She has published poetry collections, novels, plays, essays and performance scores.
She is an associate professor in choreography at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts.
Contact:
jannelys[at]online.no
CALENDAR
2025
TBA New work, collaboration with Pinqiuins percussion ensemble
TBA Launch of puplication: Choreographic Toolbox #2
2024
17/08 Time and solitude, Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin (DE)
14/06 Presentation/paper, Nordic Society of Aesthetics, conference,
Reykjavik (IS)
23/04 Presentation/paper on notation and scores,
Research Dialogues no. 7,
The Norwegian Academy of Music
11/04 Library of gestures, Dansens Hus (NO)
12/04 Library of gestures, Dansens Hus (NO)
13/04 Library of gestures, Dansens Hus (NO)
14/04 Library of gestures, Dansens Hus (NO)
2023
30/08 Book launch: Being a chair. Essays on choreographic poetry
published by Varamo Press, at the Oslo National Academy of the
Arts and Norma T (NO)
09/08 Resuscitating temporalities from timeless storage, paper/presentation
Lifetimes Conference at Oslo University
07/08 More than now – placing an experience of co-temporality in movement
(paper/presentation), Lifetimes Conference at Oslo University
03/06 Embroidered Gestures, Vitlycke Performing Arts Centre (SE)
(Two performances)
07/03 Choreographic Toolbox #1, publication, launch
2022
25/10 Double nature, book launch
25/09 Time and solitude, Norrköping Konstmuseum (SE)
24/09 Time and solitude, Norrköping Konstmuseum (SE)
18/09 Time and solitude, Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo
12/06 Workshop in creative writing at Elephant, Stavanger (NO)
11/06 Workshop in creative writing at Elephant, Stavanger (NO)
2021
11/12 News, movement choir (new work),
Dramatikkens Hus, Oslo
13/11 Beauty, Göteborg International Biennial for
Contemporary Art / 3:e Våningen
12/11 Beauty, Göteborg International Biennial for
Contemporary Art / 3:e Våningen
06/11 Metamorphoses version III, MAD, Firenze
22/10 Metamorphoses, version II,
Le Regard du Cygne, Paris
16/10 Beauty I-IV, Båthallen, Bodø
15/10 Beauty I-IV, Båthallen, Bodø
18/09 Metamorphoses, Black Box Teater, Oslo
17/09 Metamorphoses, Black Box Teater, Oslo
16/09 Metamorphoses, Black Box Teater, Oslo
She is an associate professor in choreography at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts.
Contact:
jannelys[at]online.no
CALENDAR
2025
TBA New work, collaboration with Pinqiuins percussion ensemble
TBA Launch of puplication: Choreographic Toolbox #2
2024
17/08 Time and solitude, Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin (DE)
14/06 Presentation/paper, Nordic Society of Aesthetics, conference,
Reykjavik (IS)
23/04 Presentation/paper on notation and scores,
Research Dialogues no. 7,
The Norwegian Academy of Music
11/04 Library of gestures, Dansens Hus (NO)
12/04 Library of gestures, Dansens Hus (NO)
13/04 Library of gestures, Dansens Hus (NO)
14/04 Library of gestures, Dansens Hus (NO)
2023
30/08 Book launch: Being a chair. Essays on choreographic poetry
published by Varamo Press, at the Oslo National Academy of the
Arts and Norma T (NO)
09/08 Resuscitating temporalities from timeless storage, paper/presentation
Lifetimes Conference at Oslo University
07/08 More than now – placing an experience of co-temporality in movement
(paper/presentation), Lifetimes Conference at Oslo University
03/06 Embroidered Gestures, Vitlycke Performing Arts Centre (SE)
(Two performances)
07/03 Choreographic Toolbox #1, publication, launch
2022
25/10 Double nature, book launch
25/09 Time and solitude, Norrköping Konstmuseum (SE)
24/09 Time and solitude, Norrköping Konstmuseum (SE)
18/09 Time and solitude, Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo
12/06 Workshop in creative writing at Elephant, Stavanger (NO)
11/06 Workshop in creative writing at Elephant, Stavanger (NO)
2021
11/12 News, movement choir (new work),
Dramatikkens Hus, Oslo
13/11 Beauty, Göteborg International Biennial for
Contemporary Art / 3:e Våningen
12/11 Beauty, Göteborg International Biennial for
Contemporary Art / 3:e Våningen
06/11 Metamorphoses version III, MAD, Firenze
22/10 Metamorphoses, version II,
Le Regard du Cygne, Paris
16/10 Beauty I-IV, Båthallen, Bodø
15/10 Beauty I-IV, Båthallen, Bodø
18/09 Metamorphoses, Black Box Teater, Oslo
17/09 Metamorphoses, Black Box Teater, Oslo
16/09 Metamorphoses, Black Box Teater, Oslo
Photo: Tale Hendnes