lee meir

About

Lee Méir is a Berlin-based choreographer, performer, and costume designer. Her work unfolds in the spaces between chaos and order, control and randomness, logic and intuition—tracing how meaning emerges, dissolves, and travels between bodies. Working across solo, collective, and group formats, she approaches art-making as a site of encounter between people, ideas, and craft. Rooted in a humanistic approach, she sees artistic processes as spaces for care, exchange, and embodied learning—investigating how we can be together without erasing difference.

Her choreographic method of shifting mediums explores how rhythm and motion move across bodies, voices, objects, and materials—blurring hierarchies and practicing forms of coexistence. Her earlier works focused on deconstructing spoken language through the interplay of speech and movement; more recently, her focus has shifted to the the terrain where imagination and craft meet—shaping meaning through texture, intuition, and social imagination. For Méir, making art is both a way of understanding the world and a quiet act of reimagining it—not by simplifying, but by holding friction and tenderness in the same breath.

Her works are presented internationally at platforms such as Radialsystem Berlin, Tanz im August Berlin, Brighton Festival, Tanzquartier Vienna, Diver Festival Tel Aviv, and Tanzbiennale Heidelberg. She has received support from the Hauptstadtkulturfonds, Berlin Senate, fonds darstellende Künste, DanceWEB Vienna a.o. She is a recipient of the Pina Bausch Fellowship (2019), in collaboration with L’École des Sables in Senegal, and was selected by Uferstudios Berlin as a Creative Crossroads artist within the EU network Life Long Burning (2023–24).

Méir regularly teaches workshops on her method of shifting mediums and expanded work with costumes and materials, at institutions including HZT Berlin, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, HGB Leipzig, Impulstanz Vienna, and Tanzfabrik Berlin and works regularly as a mentor in dance programs. From 2017–2018, she curated the series Nah Dran extended at ada Studio Berlin, supporting emerging choreographers in realising their first works . Méir completed her choreography studies at HZT – Inter-University Centre for Dance Berlin in 2013.

She was born in Jerusalem in 1984, lives in Berlin since 2010 and is a mother to Robin since 2021.

“Méir’s work demonstrates beautifully the compatibility of artistic precision and its openness to the unknown. Méir is a performing philosopher who uses her body to deal with contingency as such. Aware of the fragility of life, Méir helps us to confront it as the very truth of the human being. Blindness, which is constitutive for artistic creation is part of it; Heiner Müller once claimed „You can only gain experience blindly.“ Méirs work gives form to this sentence, with admirable precision it opens up to the inconsistency of our world." (Marcus Steinweg, Philosopher)

Photo by Merav Maroody.