LILIAN STEINER

Lilian Steiner is an Australian dancer and choreographer, from Naarm (Melbourne), 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 contemporary humanity. 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.

Australian presentations include for FRAME Biennial, Gertrude Contemporary (solo exhibition), Chunky Move Activators commissioning program, Dancehouse Melbourne, Dance Massive, Sydney Dance Company’s New Breed program, the Keir Choreographic Award, BLEED Festival, Next Wave Festival, Melbourne Now (National Gallery Victoria), FAUX MO at MONA FOMA (Hobart), Cantos at Collingwood House, The Sophia Club, Melbourne Fringe Festival and Lucy Guerin Inc.’s Pieces for Small Spaces.

International presentations include at Dance Umbrella (Barbican Centre, London), Rencontres Chorégraphiques Internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis (Paris), B.Motion Danza (Bassano del Grappa), Homo Novus Festival (Riga), Deltebre Dansa (Deltebre), STHLM DANS (Stockholm), One Dance Festival (Plovdiv, Bulgaria), Les Plateaux de la Briqueterie (Paris), Fête de la Musique (Geneva), Festival Constellations (Toulon), Sounds and Visions Festival (Barbican Centre, London), Gallery Steinsland Berliner (Stockholm), HERE: Festival (Vitlycke Performing Arts Centre, Tanumshede) & Hong Kong International Choreography Festival (Hong Kong).

From 2010 to 2023, Lilian worked in Australia as a major performer/collaborator with Melbourne-based company, Lucy Guerin Inc.. She occupied the role of Resident Director with the company across 2021-2022. Alongside this, Lilian worked on multiple projects with choreographers Phillip Adams (Balletlab), Melanie Lane, Shelley Lasica, Brooke Stamp and Rebecca Jensen amongst others, and with numerous artists working with live performance and film in the fields of visual arts (Sally Smart, Mikala Dwyer, Brook Andrew, Emile Zile, Bridie Lunney & Ash Keating), experimental sound and composition (Anna Homler, JLIN, Richie Cyngler) and architecture/design (Matthew Bird & Patrick Hamilton).

Since 2023, Lilian has been a dancer with renowned Stockholm-based company, Cullberg, working with choreographers Ligia Lewis, Alexandra Bachzetsis, Renan Martins, Hooman Sharifi, Halla Ólafsdóttir and Alma Söderberg.

Lilian received the Australian Green Room Award for Best Performer in 2023 and Best Female Dancer in both 2017 and 2018, as well as the Helpmann Award in 2017. Her work Noise Quartet Meditation received the 2015 Green Room Award for Concept and Realisation.

Across 2026, Lilian is the inaugural Artist-in-Residence at Konstnärshuset.