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ABOUT

Lisa Colette Bysheim is a dancer and choreographer based in Bergen & Oslo, Norway. Her work centres around language, playing with ambiguous text and choreography to open and expand the experience of navigating through layers of meaning. She has a MA in Choreography from KHIO, Oslo and her works have been shown at venues including; The Norwegian National Ballet (Oslo), BIT Teatergarasjen (Bergen) CODA International Dance Festival (Oslo), Galleri F15 & Momentum (Moss), Officine Forte Marghera (Venezia), Spazju Kreattiv (Malta), Theaterforum Kreuzberg (Berlin). 

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Bysheim is currently a part of The Norwegian National Ballet´s initiativ "Kvinnelig Koreografisk Satsning" from 2020, and was commissioned to create a duet premiering during CODA International Dance Festival 2021.

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Her artistic practice spans from creating her own work, performing for others to collaborative creations. To date she’s been involved in several dance projects for film, gallery, stage and site specific works presented nationally and internationally. She will premiere a new duet commissioned by DNoB in October 2021 during CODA International Dance Festival.

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Bysheim has performed works by Mia Habib, Yaniv Cohen, Ida Frømyr Borgen, Roskva Yasmin Andersen, TGO//4332, studio research for Janne-Camilla Lyster, directors Helena Wik and Lene Therese Teigen. She has also developed improvisational works in collaboration with dancers, visual artists and musicians. Her latest solo work Ekko II was co-produced by BIT Teatergarasjen and Kunstgarasjen in Bergen in 2019, touring to Oslo, Venice and Moss. She has also produced three cross-disciplinary dance performances combining performance, live music and film; ME(et) YOU (2016), Fugue -fju:g/ (2016), Ekko I (2017), and two dance films: Variations of Suspension (2018), Like We Were Together (2018) and an interdisciplinary exhibition Performativity Beyond the Body (2018). 

 

Her masters project If Only premiered 19th March 2021 at Oslo National Academy of Arts.  A work in progress of her masters project was shown at Oktoberdans, BIT Teatergarasjen 29. October 2020. Throughout her masters in choreography she has opened her choreographic process through Open Studio Sessions #1 #2 & #3 — an ongoing platform where her rehearsals are open for the public, giving them an insight into the process of working with spoken words and movement. This is an ongoing project.

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Photo by: Kasey Leigh-Davies

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As a choreographer, Bysheim is interested in decentralising layers of engrained hierarchies in our social codes. She works particularly with language, playing with ambiguous text and choreography to open and expand the experience of navigating through layers of meaning. Her choreography incorporates structured scores for improvisation, yet allows space for the unknown and chaotic to occur. She is interested in the transformation and deconstruction of structures and systems- moving them into new unknown territories.

 

Bysheim graduated from a Masters in Choreography at The National Arts Academy Oslo, spring 2021. Her earlier education includes Trinity Laban, School of new dance, Oslo and Ballet West. 

Acknowledgements

In 2020 Bysheim was selected to be a part of The Norwegian National Ballet´s initiativ "Kvinnelig Koreografisk Satsning/ New Female Choreographic Voices". She is among one of ten selected female choreographers. The initiativ is ongoing and funded by Talent Norge & The Norwegian Lottery. 

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From 2018 -2019 Bysheim was a participant in CODA´s KreativLab for young choreographers. More info https://codadancefest.no/kreativ-lab/ 

 

In 2017 Bysheim was a part of Skuespiller- og dansealliansens mentor programme. The same year, she was also awarded Bergen City Councils artist residency apartment in Berlin for 3 months.

 

Scholarships include: 

Bergen City Council Culture Grant 2021

Scholarship for newly graduated artist, Norwegian Arts Council 2021

Bergen City Councils grant for newly established artists 2016

Hordaland County Municipality travel grant 2016.

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