Lisa Race has spent most of her career as a performer, teacher and choreographer in New York, where her dances have been seen at venues including: Dance Theater Workshop, Danspace Project, Movement Research at the Judson Church, The Kitchen‘s Dance in Progress series, and the Sylvia and Danny Kaye Playhouse.
Her work, under the guise of Race Dance - as well as in collaborations with Sondra Loring, Tom Thayer and Ginger Gillespie - has also been seen in various locations around the country, in Argentina and Hong Kong. Race danced with David Dorfman Dnace from 1989-2000, and was honoured with a New York Dance and Performance Award (Bessie) in 1995 for her dancing with the company.
In May 2005 she returned for performances with DDD as a guest artist. She has danced with Sara Pearson/Patrik Widrig, and Ronald K. Brown a.o.

Race has taught and choreographed at many universities and festivals around the US as well as creating works for D9 (Seattle), Labco (Pittsburgh), Atrek (St. Louis) and Aaben Dans (Copenhagen). In addition, she has given workshops at festivals in Europe, South America and China. Race taught at Trinity College/Performing Arts at La Mama in New York City from 1997-2005, at Wesleyan University in 2005, and is on faculty at Connecticut College. She completed an MFA in Dance at Hollins University/American Dance Festival. She has traveled to Siberia, Russia to perform her dance work "Garden: Retreat." In summer of 2008 she taught in a newly created summer dance program, „Made In France“ (in conjunction with Washington University), at the American Dance Festival and at ImPulsTanz in Vienna.