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Photo by: Kasey Leigh-Davies

Dancer | Choreographer 

EMAIL: lisa.c.bysheim@gmail.com

Lisa Colette Bysheim's (1991) artistic practice unfolds in several constellations, both as a choreographer and performer. She has a research-based practice working with voice, text and choreography. She is driven by feminist methods that examine power dynamics, particularly the nuances of soft power as a persuasive and seductive force. Lisa holds a master's degree in choreography from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts in 2021.

 

Among her latest choreographic works are If This | Then (2024), Blue Carousel (2024) and In-Betweenness (2021). In her work, she plays with humour to question, challenge, and reconstruct perceptions of power; with a particular interest in soft power. A consistent interest in her artistic practice is to investigate how language and movement combined can allow multilinear narratives to unfold without submitting them to an internal hierarchy.  

 

Currently Lisa is collaborating with dancer Katrine Patry (CA/NO), artist Sophia Gatzkan (AT), and dance artist Max Wallmeier (DK/DE). She's recently performed in works by Fieldworks - Heine Avdal & Yukiko Shinozaki, Janne-Camilla Lyster, Malin Bülow, Lene Therese Teigen.

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Lisa´s choreographic work has been presented at venues including The Norwegian National Ballet, BIT Teatergarasjen, Dansens Hus Oslo, CODA Int. Dance Festival, Galleri F15 & Momentum (Moss), Officine Forte Marghera (Venezia), Dance Festival Malta (Malta). Recent international residencies include; Onassis AIR in Athens, SE.S.TA, Czech Republic, Tanz Fabrik Berlin and Bears in the Park in Vienna.

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Lisa received a three year working grant from the Norwegian Arts Council, 2024 - 2026.

Upcoming: Performances | Workshops | Residencies

2025

I carry all the names i am given, Residency at Preform, Dale, Norway, (spring)

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2024

Blue Carousel, OFF CINARS, Montréal, Canada 12. Nov (excerpt showing)

Smooth Oscillator, Residency showing Åbne Scene, Aarhus, Denmark, 8. Nov

Blue Carousel, Oktoberdans/BIT Teatergarasjen, Bergen, Norway, 22. - 23. Oct

If This | Then, *Premiere* CODA International Dance Festival, 18. - 19. Oct

Blue Carousel, *Premiere* Dansens Hus Oslo, Norway, 6. - 9. June

In-Betweenness, Festival DanseRom, Bergen, Norway, 9. March 

In-Betweenness, Den Grøne Fabrikken, Osterøy, 10. March 

Blue Carousel, Ice Wet at BIT Teatergarasjen, 12. Feb (presentation & showing)

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Residencies/teaching

Smooth Oscillator, Residency at Åbne Scene, Aarhus, Denmark, Nov

If This | Then, Workshop at Proda Oslo, Norway 11. Oct

If This | Then, Workshop at Høyskolen Kristiania Oslo, Norway 24. Sep

If This | Then, Residency at Tanz Fabrik Berlin, Germany

If This | Then, Residency at Carte Blanche, Bergen, Norway

Blue Carousel, Residency at Carte Blanche, Bergen, Norway

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Performing

Until, Fieldworks | Avdal & Shinozaki, Dansens Hus Oslo, Norway, 1. - 4. Feb

Library of gestures, Janne-Camilla Lyster, Dansens Hus Oslo, Norway, 11. - 14. April

River Being, Edginton/Marstein/Tamulynaite/Ilona, Biel, Switzerland, 3. -4. July

River Being, Edginton/Marstein/Tamulynaite/Ilona, Aarau, Switzerland,  7. July

Suspended, Malin Bülow, Færderbiennale, 3. August

Until, Fieldworks Avdal & Shinozaki, Oktoberdans, Bergen, Norway, 25. - 26. October

Until, Fieldworks Avdal & Shinozaki, Rimi Imir, Stavanger, Norway, 21. - 22. November

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2023

In-Betweenness, Ubåden, Copenhagen, Denmark 5. + 6. July

In-Betweenness, Galleri F15 & Momentum, Moss 1. + 2. July 

Blue Carousel-the short version, DanseRom, Cornerteateret Bergen 24. + 25. March 

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Residencies/Teaching

Blue Carousel, Residency at Studio Bergen, Carte Blanche, Bergen, September

Teaching - artistic practice, Høyskolen for Dansekunst, September

Dust Devils, R&D residency at Onassis AiR, Athens, 12. - 27 June.

Partners: BIT Teatergarasjen, Ultima & Onassis Air

Body with | out face, Bears in the Park residency, Vienna 15. - 28. May

If This | Then, Verkstedsordning residency Proscen, Bergen 16. - 20 January

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2022

Blue Carousel-the short version, Ta Ordet, Universitetet i Bergen, 18. Nov

In-Betweenness, Oktoberdans/BIT Teatergarasjen 28 + 29. October 

In-Betweenness, In2It International Dance Festival, Kristiansund 07. October  

Space as a cluster, Dance Festival Malta 28. - 30.  July

Blue Carousel-the short version KoreografiLabratoriet, Dansens Hus Oslo2 24. - 28.May

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Residencies/Teaching

Body with | out face, Residency at Wrap Bergen, 11. - 22. July

If This | Then Residency at SE.S.TA, Centre for Choreographic Development Czech Republic 04 - 14 April

Teaching - artistic practice, Høyskolen for Dansekunst 28. March - 01 April

Sharing artistic practice, PRAXIS Praksis,  22. - 25. Feb

Body with | out face, Verkstedsordning residency Proscen, Bergen 7. - 10. February 

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2021

If This | Then research Mind The Gap 05.Dec

In-Betweenness CODA Int. Dance Festival Oslo Opera House 24. Oct

Open Studio Session #3 Int. Day of Dance, Scenehuset 30.April

If Only Oslo National Academy of Arts 24.March

If Only Oslo National Academy of Arts 23.March

If Only Oslo National Academy of Arts 22.March

If Only Oslo National Academy of Arts 19.March

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2020

Language is only a part of what´s going on Speaker Speaker Digital Launch 14.Nov

Entangled Materials Oktoberdans/BIT Teatergarasjen 29.Oct

Open Studio Session #2  Oslo National Academy of Arts 11.Sep

Open Studio Session #2  Oslo National Academy of Arts 10.Sep

Ambages Bergen Fringes Festival 05.Sep

Ambages Digital Streaming 07.May

Open Studio Session #2  Int. Day of Dance (cancelled) 26.April

Ambages GSF Skatepark Oslo, MA Choreography 24.April

Open Studio Session #1 PrøveRommet/BIT Teatergarsjen 23.Jan

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2019

Ekko II Galleri F15 & Momentum 29. Sep

ME(et)TEEN Spazju Kreattiv Artist in residency, Malta 01. - 15.July

Ekko II Forte Marghera, Venice, Italy 23. June

Ekko II Scenehuset, Oslo 09.June

Ekko II Scenehuset, Oslo 08.June

Ekko II BIT Teatergarasjen & Kunstgarasjen 27. April

Ekko II BIT Teatergarasjen & Kunstgarasjen 26.April

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