28.04 - 04.05
We welcome Lilian Steiner to the first residency in our own artist-in-residence program. During this residency, Lilian Steiner will work on performance-lecture Dance Becomes Her.
The choreographer was selected for this residency through Vitlycke-CPA’s Open Call for Artist in Residence that was aimed at dancers, choreographers and dance companies from Sweden or active in Sweden who wish to create a new work or further develop a previous dance or performing arts performance.
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.
Dance Becomes Her is a performance-lecture that addresses the ways that dance and embodied knowledge is shared between and archived within bodies across time. It articulates thoughts on this topic through simultaneous dancing and speaking. The
text that is spoken is predetermined and carefully crafted, while the dancing is largely improvised, framed by some key predetermined structural choices.
In this performance lecture, 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.
Lilian Steiner is an Australian dancer and choreographer. Her practice explores the body’s deep intelligence and unique ability to make visible the complexity of contemporary humanity. She is interested in experimental sound and visual design where the body is the basis for questions and expressions. Lilian’s work includes stage performances, performance and object-based installations, video works and DJ sets. In Australia she has been presented at Dancehouse Melbourne, Dance Massive, Sydney Dance Company’s New Breed and INDance programs, the Keir Choreographic Award, Gertrude Contemporary, Chunky Move Activator’s commissioning program, BLEED Festival, Next Wave Festival and Melbourne Now (National Gallery Victoria). International performances for Rencontres Chorégraphiques Internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis (Paris), B.Motion Danza (Bassano del Grappa), STHLM DANS (Stockholm), Homo Novus Festival (Riga), Deltebre Dansa (Deltebre), Fête de la Musique (Geneva) and Festival Constellations (Toulon).
Since 2010, Lilian worked in Australia as an artist/collaborator with the Melbourne-based company, Lucy Guerin Inc., with choreographers Phillip Adams, Melanie Lane, Shelley Lasica and Brooke Stamp and with many artists working in live performance and film, visual arts, sound and architecture/design. Lilian has been a dancer with Cullberg since 2023.