janne-camilla lyster                                                                                                                
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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. Her choreographic work is presented internationally.

She is a professor of choreography at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts, and has previously also worked as a professor of creative writing.

Contact:
jannelys[at]online.no





CALENDAR


2026
TBA    Idiot Machine, performance in collaboration with
           Pinqiuins percussion ensemble,
           co-produced by Dansens Hus (NO)

2025

TBA    Launch of puplication: Choreographic Toolbox #2
TBA    Choreographic Monologues I-III (2025-2027)
TBA    I’ll Crane for You, solo adaptation of score by Deborah Hay


2024 

11/12    The Rules of poetry, The Oslo National Academy of the Arts
10/12    The Rules of poetry, The Oslo National Academy of the Arts
09/12    The Rules of poetry, The Oslo National Academy of the Arts
06/12    The Rules of poetry, The Oslo National Academy of the Arts
05/12    The Rules of poetry, The Oslo National Academy of the Arts

03/12    Embroidered gestures, Frysja Kunstnersenter

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