Janne-Camilla Lyster (b. 1981) is a Norwegian choreographer, writer and performer. She completed her artistic PhD in 2019 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 the editor of Dansekunst, a Norwegian journal for dance. Since 2021 she in an associate professor in choreography at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts.
Contact:
jannelys[at]online.no
CALENDAR
2024
11/04 Library of gestures, new work to be premiered at Dansens Hus (NO)
TBA Byproduct of Friction, premiere
Choreography by Deborah Hay, performed by Christopher Roman,
Karl Jay-Lewin and Janne-Camilla Lyster
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 the editor of Dansekunst, a Norwegian journal for dance. Since 2021 she in an associate professor in choreography at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts.
Contact:
jannelys[at]online.no
CALENDAR
2024
11/04 Library of gestures, new work to be premiered at Dansens Hus (NO)
TBA Byproduct of Friction, premiere
Choreography by Deborah Hay, performed by Christopher Roman,
Karl Jay-Lewin and Janne-Camilla Lyster
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