Lizzie Thomson is a choreographer, performer and researcher living and working on unceded Gadigal and Wangal lands of the Eora Nation. Her practice interrogates processes of embodiment as they relate to cultural, historical and temporal forces. Her work draws on both choreographic and sculptural processes and takes multiple forms including performance, video installation, text and sculpture. Lizzie has presented work at venues including Carriageworks, Performance Space, the Art Gallery of NSW, the Museum of Contemporary Art (Sydney), Campbelltown Arts Centre, MAMA Murray Art Museum Albury, Eastern Bloc Gallery, Serial Space, Alaska Projects, Critical Path, ReadyMade Works, Omeo Dance Studio, The Giant Dwarf Theatre, Dancehouse, ACO Air (Hong Kong), SODA Universität der Künste (Berlin), SÍM (Reykjavík, Iceland) and ABC Arts Online Program.
For over twenty years now, Lizzie has been working as a performer and has performed extensively throughout Australia and internationally in works by artists and companies including Marina Abramovic, Hans Van den Broeck, Rosalind Crisp, Tess De Quincey, Mette Edvardsen, Expressions Dance Company, Brian Fuata, Agatha Gothe-Snape, Shane Haseman, Nikki Heywood, Samuel James, Joan Jonas, Julie-Anne Long, Jane McKernan, Adelle Mills, Jennifer Monson, Opera Australia, Jess Olivieri, Gail Priest, Jochen Roller, Tino Sehgal, Brooke Stamp, Garry Stewart, Dean Walsh, and many more. Alongside her own choreographic and performance work, Lizzie works with artists as a dramaturg / mentor / choreographer in projects by artists including Rebecca Jensen, Rhiannon Newton, Rafaela Pandolfini, Ivey Wawn and the Hissy Fit collective.
Lizzie writes regularly about projects by her fellow dance and performance peers, as well as writing texts for performance projects. Her writing has been published in books including Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine about a project by Mette Edvardsen (2019); In Perpetuity about a project by Ivey Wawn (2020); Performing Process: Sharing Dance and Choreographic Practice about choreographic methodologies (2018); and numerous articles published in journals and exhibition catalogues including Performance Paradigm, Tanzconnexions: Asia Pacific and Europe Magazine, Un Magazine, Critical Dialogues, ADSR Zine, and In response: Dialogues with RealTime. She has guest edited journal issues on dance for Runway Australian Experimental Art (issue #36 DANCE) and for Critical Dialogues (issue #9 DANCE/VISUAL/ART).
