Janne-Camilla Lyster
Janne-Camilla Lyster is a choreographer, performer and writer. In 2019 she completed her artistic doctoral project "Choreographic poetry: Creating literary scores for dance". She has a special interest in pre-figurative practices, notation systems and transdisciplinary work.
Her artistic practice and research follows three main trajectories:
- the expansion between poetry and movement through development of choreographic poetry;
- choreo-musical approaches, and
- the temporal aspects of movement, including notation systems and experimental notation techniques, historical dances, and pre-figurative practices.
Underlying all three trajectories is share a deep interest in composition, method development, and transdisciplinary artistic expressions.
Lyster has published novels, plays, essays, and numerous poetry collections. She has previously also worked as a professor in creative writing. Her choreographic work is presented nationally and internationally.
Research results
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Janne-Camilla Lyster, Anne-Linn Karine Akselsen & Torunn Helene Robstad:
Library of gestures
(2024).
Performing Arts. More information -
Janne-Camilla Lyster:
On notation and scores in relation to time and temporality
(2024).
Lecture. More information -
Lise Amy Hansen & Janne-Camilla Lyster:
Sensate and sensed – configuring conditions for a relational movement potential
(2024).
Academic lecture. More information -
Maziar Raein, Stefan Ellmer & Janne-Camilla Lyster:
On Craftsmanship (Artistic Research Week 2024)
(2024).
Academic lecture. More information -
Janne-Camilla Lyster:
Resuscitating temporalities from timeless storage
(2023).
Academic lecture. More information -
Janne-Camilla Lyster & Lise Amy Hansen:
More than now – placing an experience of co-temporality in movement
(2023).
Academic lecture. More information -
Janne-Camilla Lyster:
Choreographic Toolbox #1: Metamorphoses
(2023).
Non-fiction book. More information -
Janne-Camilla Lyster:
Being a chair. Essays on choreographic poetry
(2023).
Non-fiction book. More information -
Solveig Styve Holte, Janne-Camilla Lyster, Rosalind Goldberg, Eszter Salamon & Per Roar Thorsnes:
Forum dans #9 Dancing Archives
“Two solos and a conversation based on Noa Eshkol’s work”
by Janne-Camilla Lyster and Solveig Styve Holte.
“A conversation on Artistic Research and Archives” with Eszter Salamon, Rosalind Goldberg, Janne-Camilla Lyster, Solveig Styve Holte, and Per Roar (moderator).
(2023).
Lecture. More information -
Janne-Camilla Lyster:
Time and Solitude
(2022).
Performing Arts. More information