Lillian Ransijn (she/they) is a multi-modal performance artist who implores the moving body and personal storytelling to plumb the depths of grief, loss, and missed connection. They seek to see and be seen through the power, complication, devastation, intimacy, and immediacy of the body through their work as a deviser, choreographer, teaching artist, filmmaker, and intimacy coordinator. Tapping into performance as a space of elegiac and erotic ritual —fertile for what some call the 6th stage of grief, meaning-making— their works for stage and screen find beauty in the grotesque and humor in the ludicrous challenge of moving through and metabolizing every day life/inherited lifetimes. They graduated from Emory University’s Dance and Movement Studies and Theater Programs (2005), Pig Iron/UArts M.F.A. in Devised Performance Practice (2016), and completed training in Intimacy Coordination with IDC Professionals (2022).