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 joined the University of Edinburgh as a Teaching Fellow in 2015, was appointed Chancellor's Fellow in 2021, and promoted to Reader in 2024.

I am the author of Pina Bausch’s Dance Theatre (Edinburgh University Press, 2018), Performance, Masculinity, and Self-Injury (Routledge, 2024), and am co-editor of Performance in a Pandemic (Routledge, 2021). I was named an AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinker in 2020.

My next book, 'What Moves Them: A Global History of Modern Dance,' will be published by Allen Lane in 2025.