After captivating audiences at the 2024 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Lewis Major returns with TRIPTYCH Redux, a stunning new triple bill featured in the House of Oz Edinburgh 2025 season. Marking a triumphant return to the stage, 2025 will see Major perform for the first time since 2015, when a broken back halted his dancing career. TRIPTYCH Redux blends powerful and poetic choreography, showcasing Major’s remarkable comeback and artistic evolution.
Since he formed his company in 2016, Lewis Major’s choreographic career has gone from strength to strength and he is increasingly internationally recognised as the creator of refreshingly audience-driven work with a contemporary sensibility and a global outlook.
TRIPTYCH Redux brings together two hit works from Lewis’ 5-star-reviewed 2024 Edinburgh season with the world premiere of a new work. The result is a programme of sound, movement, light, space, shape and form guaranteed to stir the emotions.
Lewis first created Unfolding during lockdown when he wore a motion-tracking suit which enabled him to input his movements into a video game-style digital space. In the work that emerged from that experiment, pulsating musical accompaniment by composer James Brown and shifting 3D animations by lighting designer Fausto Brusamolino generate the hyper-real feel of video games. Four dancers gradually shed their costumes and reveal their vulnerabilities, shifting from a futuristic sculptural state to an organic, peaceful and tender mood.
In two parts, Epilogue opens with a watchfully combative duet followed by a crystalline solo where a lone figure, covered in fine white powder, executes sinuous, spiral sequences on a bare stage, patterns emerging in the dust. This hypnotic piece is a meditation on the intersection of modernity and tradition. The music is by Dane Yates inspired by Claude Debussy and Ryuichi Sakamoto.
The programme will be completed by the world premiere of Lewis Major’s new work.
Lewis Major has worked with some of the biggest names in international contemporary dance including Akram Khan, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Russell Maliphant, Hofesh Shechter and Aakash Odedra. His company, Lewis Major Projects, is based in South Australia where he grew up on his family’s 11,000-acre farm. Lewis didn’t set foot in a theatre until his teens but took up gymnastics but when he saw Garry Stewart’s work for Australian Dance Theatre. In his early 20s, while studying ballet at New Zealand School of Dance, he broke his back and discovered a congenital condition which took him away from performance and into choreography.
TRIPTYCH Redux is one of eight shows in House of Oz’s 2025 Edinburgh season, the fourth visit to the Fringe from the philanthropic powerhouse with a mission to platform Australian creative arts for export. The other shows are: You’re An Instrument from The Sonicrats; The Listies Make Some Noise from The Listies; Lady Macbeth Played Wing Defence by Crash Theatre Company; FLICK from Mad Nun Productions; Ten Thousand Hours from Gravity & Other Myths; Orpheus and Eurydice by Circa (at the Edinburgh International Festival); and Skinny by Michelle Pearson.
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