Mark Lorimer was born in 1969 in Sussex, England.
Graduated from the London Contemporary Dance School (BA hons) in 1991 and joined The Featherstonehaughs (choreographer Lea Anderson).

In 1993 he moved to Brussels to work with Cie Michèle-Anne de Mey for Pulcinella and the following year joined Anne-Teresa De Keersmaeker's company Rosas. Between 1994-97, 2000-2001, and 2006 to the present, as well as free-lancing in between, Mark has worked as a dancer and rehearsal director on several new creations and repertory pieces. And in 2009 he danced with Cynthia Loemij at the Aral Sea of Kazakhstan in "Prelude à la Mer" - a re-working for film by Thierry De Mey of L'après-Midi D'Un Faune.

Alongside this ongoing relationship with Rosas, Mark also became a founder member in 1997 and worked for 8 years with choreographer Thomas Hauert in his company ZOO. He has worked on projects with Bock and Vincenzi, Mia Lawrence, Jonathan Burrows, Deborah Hay for her quartet "The Match" and a solo adaptation of the same piece "Wax on Paper". Plus a short choreography of his own "Nylon Solution" created with Chrysa Parkinson.

In 2008 Mark created a video installation entitled "Mirror Modulation" - a duet with Cynthia Loemij. Mark and Cynthia subsequently made a duet "To Intimate" which premiered in the Charleroi-danses Biennale, November 2011 and is currently touring. He is also working on a duet with Alix Eynaudi entitled "Monique" for Tanzquartier in Vienna for June 2012.

Mark has taught a.o. at P.A.R.T.S. (Brussels), ImPulsTanz (Vienna), The Laban Centre and LCDS (London) and Panetta Movement Centre and Movement Research (New York).