Dance Becomes Her addresses the ways that dance and embodied knowledge is shared between and archived within bodies across time. Language and movement collide and mix and slip past each other in ways that help to articulate and demonstrate the subject, in ways that either form operating alone cannot.
The dancing body is not one that grows solo. It feeds off those around it, consciously and subconsciously, in a pinpoint moment in time and across expanded duration. Both through and without language, learnings accumulate within the body, within the spaces it occupies and in the archive of memory.
… and the dancing body is a tool acquired by Dance itself. Dance wears us, like a costume.
Writing & Performance: Lilian Steiner
Supported by SKF/Konstnärshuset
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Lilian Steiner is an Australian dancer and choreographer, currently based in Stockholm. Her practice champions the deep intelligence of the body and its unique ability to reveal and comment on the complexities of embodied experience. Curious about the body’s ever-evolving materiality in relation to time, place, and emotional, cultural and political accumulations, her interests extend into experimental sound and visual design practices where the body is the base for questioning and expression. Lilian’s choreographic work spans stage productions, gallery performance and object-based installations, video works and DJ set live-shows. Her work has been presented within Australia and internationally.
From 2010 to 2023, Lilian worked in Australia as a major performer/collaborator with Melbourne-based company, Lucy Guerin Inc., with choreographers Phillip Adams, Melanie Lane, Shelley Lasica and Brooke Stamp, and with numerous artists working with live performance and film in the fields of visual arts, experimental sound and architecture/design. Since 2023, Lilian has been a dancer with renowned Stockholm-based company, Cullberg, working with choreographers Faye Driscoll, Ligia Lewis, Alexandra Bachzetsis, Renan Martins, Hooman Sharifi, Halla Ólafsdóttir and Alma Söderberg.
During 2026, Lilian is the inaugural Artist-in-Residence at SKF/Konstnärshuset in Stockholm.
