Sally Jane Norman FRSA is a New Zealand–French performing arts historian, who is currently the inaugural incumbent of the Denis Adam Chair in Music at Victoria University of Wellington, having served as Director of the New Zealand School of Music from July 2017 until April 2024. Norman is a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts, and the National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts. Her research on performance technologies builds on historical forms and extends to contemporary practices involving digital tools and techniques. In parallel, Norman ensures advisory and evaluation roles for international bodies dealing with education, cultural policy, and interdisciplinary research. Having worked on several European Information Society Technologies projects, including three years at the Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie (Karlsruhe), Norman has been engaged for over a decade as a panel member and support person for the European Research Council, and regularly reviews large grant applications for other international research organisations. She serves on the International Advisory Board of the Université Grenoble-Alpes in Grenoble, France.
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| Alma mater | University of Canterbury, Institut d'études théâtrales de Paris, Institut d'études théâtrales de Paris |
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| Doctoral advisor | Bernard Dort, Denis Bablet |
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| Institutions | Victoria University of Wellington |
Academic career
editNorman gained Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees at the University of Canterbury. She then attended the University of Paris 3, where she completed a Doctorat de 3ème cycle (1980) and Doctorat D’Etat (1990) from the Institut D’Etudes Théâtrales; her second thesis on avant-garde performance and embodiment is titled La Mise en scène du corps: vers une nouvelle plastique scénique, 1900-1930.[1][2] Norman was Director General of the Ecole européenne supérieure de l’image, and then the inaugural Director of the Culture Lab at Newcastle University.[3] Norman then joined the faculty of the University of Sussex, where she was Professor of Performance Technologies, and co-founding co-director of the Sussex Humanities Lab. In 2017 Norman was appointed the Director of the New Zealand School of Music, and since April 2024 is the Denis Adam Chair in Music at Victoria University of Wellington.[2][4][5][6][7][8]
Norman is a New Zealander, and grew up in Tītahi Bay.[9] She publishes in French and English, as a dual citizen of France and New Zealand.[5] N
Honours and awards
editNorman is a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts, and the National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts.[9]
Selected works
edit- Sally-Jane Norman (16 June 2014), Grappling With Movement Models: Performing Arts And Slippery Contexts (in German), doi:10.1145/2617995.2618019, Wikidata Q126367487
- Sally Jane Norman (June 2013). "Contexts of/as Resistance". Contemporary Music Review. 32 (2–03): 275–288. doi:10.1080/07494467.2013.775805. ISSN 0749-4467. Wikidata Q126367508.
- Bennett Hogg; Sally Jane Norman (June 2013). "Resistant Materials in Musical Creativity". Contemporary Music Review. 32 (2–03): 115–118. doi:10.1080/07494467.2013.775804. ISSN 0749-4467. Wikidata Q126367509.
- Kirk Woolford; Alan F. Blackwell; Sally Jane Norman; Cecile Chevalier (April 2010). "Crafting a Critical Technical Practice". Leonardo. 43 (2): 202–203. doi:10.1162/LEON.2010.43.2.202. ISSN 0024-094X. Wikidata Q126367510.
- Sally Jane Norman (11 October 2006). "Instant conductors". International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media (in French). 2 (2): 109–121. doi:10.1386/PADM.2.2.109_1. ISSN 1479-4713. Wikidata Q126367511.
- Sally Jane Norman (1 January 2015). "Theater and ALife Art: Modeling Open and Closed Systems". Artificial Life. 21 (3): 344–353. doi:10.1162/ARTL_A_00175. ISSN 1064-5462. PMID 26280075. Wikidata Q47658490.
- Sally Jane Norman (2 July 2016). "Setting live coding performance in wider historical contexts". International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media. 12 (2): 117–128. doi:10.1080/14794713.2016.1227600. ISSN 1479-4713. Wikidata Q126367483.
- Sally-Jane Norman (2 January 2016). "Mothers of Invention: An Afterword". Contemporary Music Review. 35 (1): 150–160. doi:10.1080/07494467.2016.1176770. ISSN 0749-4467. Wikidata Q126367484.
References
edit- ^ Norman, Sally (1990). La Mise en scène du corps: vers une nouvelle plastique scénique, 1900-1930 (Thèse de doctorat). Paris 3.
- ^ a b "News - New Director For New Zealand School of Music". NZ Musician. Retrieved 5 June 2024.
- ^ "Sally Jane Norman". Leonardo Electronic Almanac. 2 April 2012. Retrieved 5 June 2024.
- ^ University of Sussex. "Professor Sally Jane Norman". profiles.sussex.ac.uk. Retrieved 5 June 2024.
- ^ a b Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington. "Academic profile: Professor Sally Jane Norman". people.wgtn.ac.nz. Retrieved 5 June 2024.
- ^ "Te Kōkī NZSM's new leader". RNZ. 15 August 2017. Retrieved 5 June 2024.
- ^ "The New Zealand Centre - Peking University". nzc.sfl.pku.edu.cn. Retrieved 5 June 2024.
- ^ "Proposed staff cuts at the New Zealand School of Music". RNZ. 26 June 2023. Retrieved 5 June 2024.
- ^ a b Mackintosh, Christine (12 June 2017). "Who Got That Job? Director, New Zealand School of Music (Te Kōkī)".
External links
edit- Sally Jane Norman: New Notations and Embodied Experience, at IRCAM in Paris during September 2016, via YouTube