Thalia Stone (formerly Thalia Livingstone) is an artist and choreographer whose practice unsettles the assumed, resists the scripts that pathologise and contain distress, and interrogates saneist approaches to meaning-making.
Trained first in architecture, she now stages the inner architectures of the mind, exposing how attention, interpretation and meaning are learned. (de) Central to her choreographic research is the Opposite Practice: a methodology that unmasks cognitive bias, disrupts perceptual hierarchies and rehearses alternative possibilities. The opposite isn’t the answer; it’s the interruption that reveals an answer was being imposed in the first place.
Her work develops through solo and ensemble performance, text and voice, site-responsive work, film and collaborative processes. Intimate encounters with psychiatric institutions shape the politics and conditions of her practice.
Trained first in architecture, she now stages the inner architectures of the mind, exposing how attention, interpretation and meaning are learned. (de) Central to her choreographic research is the Opposite Practice: a methodology that unmasks cognitive bias, disrupts perceptual hierarchies and rehearses alternative possibilities. The opposite isn’t the answer; it’s the interruption that reveals an answer was being imposed in the first place.
Her work develops through solo and ensemble performance, text and voice, site-responsive work, film and collaborative processes. Intimate encounters with psychiatric institutions shape the politics and conditions of her practice.
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SELECT CHOREOGRAPHIC WORK
2026 this is the truth — ensemble performance, 50’. Vlaams Cultuurhuis de Brakke Grond, Amsterdam.
I Stand For You — solo performance, 40’. Tempel and Frascati, Amsterdam; Spider Festival, Ljubljana; Ufer Studios, Berlin.
2025 Torn — ensemble performance, 40’. Veem House for Performance, Amsterdam; Op de Ring, Amsterdam 750.
2024 Sing the Praises — ensemble performance, 30’. Amsterdam.
2023 It’s a Trap — site-specific solo performance, 30’. Cavernous, Plantage Dok, Amsterdam; commissioned by AFK. Glamcult Press.
2023 So Fucking Well — solo performance with video installation, 30’. Hardly Forever Festival, Amsterdam.
2023 Fully Sick — solo performance on rollerblades, 10’. TTERRIIBBLLEE Event #4, Amsterdam.
2022 Learning How to Fly, Learning How to Die — short film, 8’03”. Low Battery Film Screening, Amsterdam.
2021 dead heart — solo performance, 35’. KulturBunker Mülheim, Cologne, TTEERRIIBBLLEE event ,Amsterdam. Supported by NEUSTART KULTUR / DIS-TANZ-SOLO.
2020 Stuttgart Corner — short film, 4’48”. Prize winner, Tanja Liedtke Foundation Artists Amidst COVID Competition; official selection, Dance(lens) Film Festival.
2019 Dark Points — live performance and Dance film. Melbourne Fringe Festival; Tempo Dance Festival, New Zealand.
SELECT PERFORMANCE EXPERIENCE/WORK FOR OTHERS
2026 Molly Palmer, Asylum X—Amsterdam, Caller.
2025 Sancha Meca Castro, A Ruin Is a Tail — De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam; Antisezona, Zagreb. Dancer.
2025 Soraya Lutangu Bonaventure, One of 1 Across 1 Another — DAS Theatre, Amsterdam. Dancer.
2025 Playbill, A Mirror is not a Window, Roe v Wade, by Sarah Schulman, directed by Szymon Adamczak — Torpedo Theatre, Amsterdam.
2024 Rūta Junevičiūtė, Solar — Vlaams Cultuurhuis de Brakke Grond, Amsterdam. Performer.
2023 Julius Frōdermann, How to Misuse Our Fathers’ Inventions Wisely — Frascati Theatre, Amsterdam. Performer.
2023 & 2026 Dutch National Opera & Ballet, Het Zwanenmeer. Performer.
2022 Dutch National Opera & Ballet, Carmen. Performer.
2020 Marie Chouinard, In Museum — La Biennale Danza, Venice. Dancer.
2020 Xavier Le Roy, Le Sacre du Printemps — La Biennale Danza, Venice. Dancer.
2020 Marco d’Agostin, A Mushroom at the End of the World — La Biennale Danza, Venice. Dancer.
2019 Stephanie Lake Company, Colossus — Melbourne International Arts Festival. Dancer.
2018 Chunky Move / Anouk van Dijk, NGV Triennial — National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. Dancer.
2017 Carol Brown, Demon Machine, NGV “Brave New World” exhibition — National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. Dancer.
2013 Barking Gecko Theatre Company, Driving Into Walls — Sydney Opera House; Perth International Arts Festival, Australian Performing Arts Market. Performer.
EDUCATION
2026 School for New Dance Development (SNDO), Amsterdam — Bachelor of Choreography.
2021 Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH), Stockholm — Dance and Philosophy Summer Unit— Master of Arts.
2019 University of Melbourne, Victorian College of the Arts — Bachelor of Fine Arts (Dance); Valedictorian, Faculty of Fine Arts & Music.
2015 University of Western Australia —Bachelor of Design (major in Architecture, minor in Integrated Design)
2011 University of Western Australia —Bachelor of Science (Neuroscience )-one year completed.
2011 Australian Institute of Fitness — Certificate III & IV in Fitness.
2010 West Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) — Certificate III in Dance.
2010 Graduate College of Dance — Perth Modern School, Perth, Western Australia.
2008 Balletfachschule Ronnecker — Stuttgart, Germany.
2007 John Curtin College of the Arts — Dance specialist program, Fremantle, Western Australia.
AWARDS, FUNDING & RESIDENCIES
2026 AHK Eindwerkprijs - nomination.
Aart Janszen Fund.
2025 Kokto Air Residency, Athens.
2023 Lucy Guerin Inc., Make a Start Residency, Melbourne.
2022 DIS-TANZ-SOLO Funding Recipient, Dachverband Tanz Deutschland / NEUSTART KULTUR.
2021 DIS-TANZ-SOLO Funding Recipient, Dachverband Tanz Deutschland / NEUSTART KULTUR.
2020 Prize winner, Tanja Liedtke Foundation Artists Amidst COVID Competition.
2019 Valedictorian, University of Melbourne, Faculty of Fine Arts, Victorian College of the Arts.
2019 Choreographic Development Award, Victorian College of the Arts
2019 Dancehouse & Union House Theatre Dance Award
2019 Melbourne University Theatre Board New Works Grant.
2017 ARM Design Prize for Architecture, University of Western Australia (shortlist).
2016 International Design Summer Studio study abroad scholarship, International Design Summer Studio — Athens.
2014 MEAA Equity Award, Best Newcomer – Actor.
2007 Royal Academy of Dance (RAD) Ballet – Advanced II competition, honourable mention.
CURATORIAL & COMMUNITY PRACTICE
2026 Gekkenhuis
2023 Messsy Movement — Co-founder and facilitator of bi-weekly movement sessions, Amsterdam.
2022 TTERRIIBBLLEE Event — co-founder and co-curator of monthly underground performance platform, Amsterdam.
2021 Remote Console — founder and curator of online movement platform during COVID.
2020 Irregular Scheduled Programming: Gaze, Interrupted — co-curator and editor, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne & online; winner of Confinement Creativity Award (Melbourne Theatre Board).
TALKING & TEACHING
2026 Ultra Para Lingual, Gekkenhuis at Pulsie, Amsterdam - presentation on nonsense and sharing of text
2022
2021 Tanzfaktur Cologne - improvisation class
SELECTED WORKSHOPS & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT- teachings that left a lasting impression
2026 Butoh — Vicky Filippa & Alex Mitros, Akropoditi Dance Festival, Syros.
2023 Movement Research Workshop — Ria Higler, Amsterdam.
2022 Togethering, a Social Dance — Alice Chauchat, Impulstanz Vienna.
2020 Continuum Workshop — Volker Moritz, Venice Biennale College Danza (scholarship).
2017 Workshop — Jonathan Burrows & Matteo Fargion, Dancehouse, Melbourne (scholarship).
2016 Workshop — Faye Driscoll, Lucy Guerin Inc., Melbourne.
2011 Acting Intensive — Black Swan Theatre Company, Perth.
1995- present Ballet — RAD advanced 2 (2010) and presently maintenance training.
Additional workshop training includes: ongoing vocal training and practice in Feldenkrais, pole dance and climbing.
LANGUAGES
English (mother tongue), German (father tongue), Dutch (basic)
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