Over the past decade, Liza Baliasnaja has been active as a choreographer, performer and pedagogue, working between Lithuania, Belgium, France, and Germany. She studied dance at P.A.R.T.S. and philosophy at KU Leuven. Since 2023, she has been based in Cologne. 

Her work deals with themes of power, violence, and subjectivity, with a recent focus on the political power of negative emotions. She choreographs with diverse materials, often integrating language, movement and voice through body-based research.

Her performance practice is shaped by collaborations with Eszter Salamon, Christine De Smedt, Lenio Kaklea,  Lina Lapelytė, Ula Sickle, DD Dorvillier, and Mårten Spångberg, among many others. Her work has been presented at numerous festivals including New Baltic Dance (LT), Contempo (LT), FAVORITEN (DE), Bâtard (BE), Radiant Nights (BE), Almost Summer/ Feminist Futures (BE). Together with Rūta Junevičiūte she is co-facilitating an ongoing workshop series/ research ‘Sore Spots’, addressing how unresolved history manifests in the body. In 2025, her performance Chiaroscuro was nominated for Lithuania’s highest theatre award, the Golden Stage Cross. Her latest work Shield is Weapon premiered at Tanzhaus NRW and is currently on tour.