Lewis Major is an award-winning Australian choreographer/director with a background in sheep farming and a foreground in contemporary dance theatre. He has worked with seminal contemporary dance makers Akram Khan, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Hans van den Broeck (Cie Soit/Les Ballets C de la B), Damien Jalet and Hofesh Shechter and was a founding member of Aakash Odedra Company.
Triptych is a three part programme of dance works by Major and his mentor Russell Maliphant. Each piece is visually rich, revelling in the two artists’ obsessions with spatial awareness and the body’s trajectory in space, and producing a scintillating synthesis of movement and light.
Triptych opens with a new reworking of Maliphant’s trio Two x Three with lighting by Michael Hulls and music by Andy Cowton. It features three sparely lit squares of light, each containing a dancer, their exquisitely-lit arms outstretched to us and each other. Lewis Major’s piece Unfolding features dazzling projections by lighting designer Fausto Brusamolino which have a visceral impact on the viewer, making us feel as if we’re almost spinning with the four dancers. The concluding duet and accompanying solo Epilogue (Acts 1 and 2) – also by Major – danced to a Debussy-inspired score, has an otherworldly quality, evoking mesmerising figures on the cusp of body sculpture.
Triptych premiered in Adelaide in 2024, and was a hit of the Edinburgh Fringe at DanceBase the same year, winning many accolades and five star reviews. It is on tour in Autumn 2025 and Spring 2026, accompanied by Lewis Major’s Lien, a ten minute one-on-one performance by a member of the Triptych cast.
