Lucy Weir

I specialise in performance, from dance and experimental theatre to live art.

After completing my undergraduate and postgraduate degrees at the University of Glasgow, I taught at Glasgow School of Art for several years. I am currently Chancellor's Fellow in History of Art at the University of Edinburgh. I was named an AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinker in 2020.

I am the author of Pina Bausch’s Dance Theatre (Edinburgh University Press, 2018), and co-editor of Performance in a Pandemic (Routledge, 2021). I am completing a book for Routledge that explores the relationship between masculinity and self-injury in performance art. 'What Moves Them,' my global history of modern dance, will be published by Allen Lane in 2025.