In 2007 the Sydney Dance Company appointed 29-year-old choreographer Tanja Liedtke as their first new artistic director in 30 years. However before she could take up the position, she was struck and killed by a truck in the middle of the night.

Admired internationally as a dancer and celebrated for her fresh choreographic voice, she was known as a dedicated artist, intelligent, dorky, funny and generous.

18 months after her death her collaborators embark on a world tour of her work, and in the process they must deal with their grief and explore the reasons for her death. Interspersed with intimate footage of her artistic process and previously unseen interviews, Life in Movement is a film about moving creatively through life and loss. Filmmakers Bryan Mason and Sophie Hyde give us a powerfully rendered take on art and artists, creativity and our own mortality.

German born Tanja Liedtke began her dance and theatre studies in Madrid. She pursued further training at Elmhurst Ballet School, and graduated from the Ballet Rambert School before taking up residence in Sydney in 1996. Tanja was a member of Australian Dance Theatre (ADT) under the directorship of Garry Stewart for four years, touring across Australia, Asia, UK and North America.

In 2006 Tanja received the Australian Dance Award for Outstanding Achievement in Choreography for her work Twelfth Floor which toured nationally through Mobile States.
Tanja was the newly appointed Artistic Director of Sydney Dance Company at the time of her accidental death in August.