LILIAN STEINER

Lilian Steiner is an Australian choreographer, dancer and performer. Currently, she is based in Stockholm, Sweden, joining Cullberg for their 2023/24 season.

Her practice champions the deep intelligence of the body and its unique ability to reveal and comment on the complexities of contemporary humanity. Her interests extend into visual arts and experimental sound practices where the body is the base for questioning and expression.

CHOREOGRAPHY
Lilian’s major choreographic projects include:
- Flesh and Diamonds - Solo gallery exhibition, presented by Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne 2023
- Work in progress - Collaboration with composer, Matt Laing, supported by Musica Viva Australia’s FutureMakers program, Melbourne 2023
- Dance Becomes Her: a performance lecture - for WRITING & CONCEPTS at Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne 2022, Cantos 1. at Collingwood House 2023, The Australian Ballet for FRAME Biennial, Melbourne 2023 & The Sophia Club, Brunswick Ballroom 2023
- To immortality and out the other side - collaboration with Patrick Hamilton, Chunky Move ACTIVATORS 9 commission, Melbourne 2022
- Siren Dance - Dancehouse, Melbourne 2022, Sydney Dance Company (inaugural INDance program), Sydney 2022 & Homo Novus Festival, Riga 2022 | *First iteration (20mins) presented at Deltebre Dansa 2019 / B.Motion, Bassano del Grappa 2019
- Springtime Again - commission for Sydney Dance Company, New Breed season 2021
- Becoming The Icon - collaboration with Emile Zile, BLEED 2020
- Memoir for Rivers and The Dictator - Dance Massive 2019 | *Originally commissioned as a short work for the Keir Choreographic Award 2018 / presented at Constellations Festival, Toulon 2018 / Les Plateaux de la Briqueterie 2018)
- Metal Under Venus - The Fall of the Sun - Hong Kong ICAROS Residency 2017
- Admission Into the Everyday Sublime - Next Wave Festival 2016
- BUNKER - Melbourne Fringe Festival, 2015
- Noise Quartet Meditation - The Substation, Melbourne Fringe Festival 2014 / Dance Massive 2017 / Rencontres Chorégraphiques de Seine Saint Denis, Paris 2018 / Fête de la Musique, Geneva 2018
- Meditation - Melbourne Now, NGV 2014
- The Call to Connect - Voyager Recordings - Lucy Guerin Inc.’s Pieces for Small Spaces 2012

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PERFORMANCE
As a performer, Lilian works across independent and company environments within both dance and the visual arts.  

Lilian has been a dancer with Lucy Guerin Inc. across many projects since 2011:
- NEWRETRO - Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA, Melbourne) 2023, FRAME Biennial
- Flux Job - Arts House (Melbourne) 2022
- Metal - AsiaTOPA Festival (Melbourne) 2020
- Make Your Own World - premiered Dance Massive 2019
- Split - premiered Dance Massive 2017 / Touring 2018 & 2019 (Australia, Europe, North America, Canada, Japan)
- The Dark Chorus - premiered Melbourne Festival 2016
- Motion Picture - premiered Dance Massive 2015
- Weather - premiered Melbourne Festival 2012 / North American tour 2013 / Paris tour 2015
- Structure and Sadness - US. tour 2011

Amongst others she has worked with choreographers Phillip Adams’ Balletlab (Above, MONA FOMA 2011 and EVER, Melbourne Festival 2017), Melanie Lane (Nightdance, Arts House 2017 & Dance Massive 2019), Shelley Lasica (The Design Plot, RMIT Design Hub & Gertrude Glasshouse 2017) and Rennie McDougall (SUPERTONE, Next Wave Festival, 2012), visual artists Ash Keating (Continuum: Parts 1 & 2, 2013/14), Brook Andrew (Smudge, RMIT Design Hub, 2015), Mikala Dwyer (Goldene Bend'er, ACCA, 2013) and Alicia Frankovic (Defending Plural Experiences, Framed Movements, ACCA, 2014), performance art group Public Movement (Training Ground, ACCA in the City, 2015), architect Matthew Bird (Studio Bird) (Sarcophagus, Venice Biennale 2016), sound artist Anna Homler (Breadwoman, MONA FOMA 2018 and MPavillion in association with Liquid Architecture) and composer JLIN (Faux Mo at MONA FOMA 2018 and Sounds and Visions at The Barbican 2018).

AWARDS RECEIVED
- 2023 Green Room Award for ‘Best Performer’ for Siren Dance
- 2018 Green Room Award for 'Female Dancer' for Year's Work (Lucy Guerin Inc.’s Split, Phillip Adams’ Balletlab’s EVER & Melanie Lane’s Night Dance)
- 2017 Helpmann Award for 'Female Dancer' in Lucy Guerin Inc.'s Split
- 2017 Green Room Award for 'Female Dancer' in Lucy Guerin Inc.'s The Dark Chorus
- 2015 Green Room Award for 'Concept and Realisation' for Noise Quartet Meditation

NOMINATIONS
- 2016 Green Room Award nomination for 'Design' for BUNKER
- 2016 Green Room Award nomination for 'Female Dancer' for body of work (Lucy Guerin Inc.'s Motion Picture and BUNKER)
- 2015 Green Room Award nomination for the 'Shirley McKechnie Award for Choreography' for Noise Quartet Meditation
- 2013 Green Room Award nomination for 'Female Dancer' for Rennie McDougall's SUPERTONE