Sally Jane Norman

Sally Jane Norman is a New Zealand–French performing arts historian, and holds the Denis Adam Chair in Music at Victoria University of Wellington, where she is director of the New Zealand School of Music. Norman is a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts, and the National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts. She researchers performance technologies and new kinds of performance.

Academic career
Norman 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 and Doctorat D’Etat from the Institut D’Etudes Théâtrales, with a thesis titled La Mise en scène du corps: vers une nouvelle plastique scénique, 1900-1930. Norman was Director General of the Ecole européenne supérieure de l’image, and then the inaugural Director of the Culture Lab at Newcastle University. Norman then joined the faculty of the University of Sussex, where she was Professor of Performance Technologies, and co-director of the Sussex Humanities Lab. In 2017 Norman was appointed the Director of the New Zealand School of Music, and is the Denis Adam Chair in Music at Victoria University of Wellington.

Norman is a New Zealander, and grew up in Tītahi Bay. She publishes in both French and English, and is a dual citizen of France and New Zealand. Norman is a performing arts historian, and is interested in performance technology, notation, and new kinds of performance.

Honours and awards
Norman is a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts, and the National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts.