Lucy Eidelson is a multidisciplinary artist based in Naarm whose work spans dance, theatre and writing. Lucy’s practice draws on folkloric imagery and dreamlike physicality, rendering the body a vessel for ancestral memory and emotional metamorphosis. Lucy is interested in creating experimental and multi-disciplinary works that merge the poetic with the strange.

Her first full length dance work, Air Hunger (2023) premiered in the Magdalen Laundry at Abbotsford Convent. Air Hunger explored the experience of invisible chronic illness through the site of the bed. It grew from a solo work into an ensemble piece made up of 9 performers on 9 double mattresses in the space, all with different lived experiences of invisible chronic illness.

 

Eidelson's second full length dance-theatre work Réquiem (2025) premiered at the Blackwood Box Meat Market. Blending dance, physical theatre, live vocals and original composition, Réquiem journeyed into the 'Thin Place' - a liminal space where birth and death co-exist. Réquiem was born after the death of Eidelson’s father in 2024. It deals with stages of loss, grief, and memory, through imagery both equally mundane and monumental. 

Eidelson’s process develops a deeply personal perspective outwards into an encounter with collective memory. This is expressed by a social choreography, often drawing from familiar objects and culturally saturated motifs such as beds (Air Hunger, 2023), weetbix (Réquiem, 2025), and stuffed toys (DOHG, 2026).