SATORI AND UNFOLDING
BY LEWIS MAJOR
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Numbers on the road: 6
On Stage: 5 dancers Sound/Lighting/AV Touring Technician: 1 Tech Demands: Same day get-in as first performance (approximately 3 hours get in), strike on same evening after the show (approximately 1 hour), 1 x multi-skilled venue technician required All persons are EU based. Show Duration: 50 minutes (plus interval where required) Audience Suitability: 5 years plus Stage Size: Min 9m wide x 7m depth, height clearance of 5m to grid Venue: Designed for both black box and proscenium arch theatres with 200+ capacity Fee: 4000 Euros 1st Show, 3500 Euros each additional show Complete description, touring budget, and technical specifications supplied on request. Touring History
Adelaide Festival, Adelaide, Australia 2021 Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide, Australia 2021 Sir Robert Helpmann Theatre, Mt Gambier, Australia 2021 Middleback Arts Centre, Whyalla, Australia 2022 Chaffey Theatre, Renmark, Australia 2022 Sir Robert Helpmann Theatre, Mt Gambier Australia 2022 Frankston Arts Centre, Melbourne, Australia 2022 Firkin Crane, Cork, Ireland 2022 Galway International Arts Festival, Galway, Ireland 2022 Dance City, Newcastle, UK 2022 Exeter Northcott Theatre, Exeter, UK 2022 Winchester Theatre Royal, Winchester, UK 2022 Production Credits Artistic Director/Choreographer: Lewis Major Composer: James Brown Lighting Design Satori: Tom Kitney Lighting and Visual Design Unfolding: Fausto Brusamolino Costume Design Unfolding: Naomi Murrell Studios |
‘Enthralling’ ADELAIDE ADVERTISER [ON SATORI]
‘Exquisite, a perfect fusion of design, light and movement.’ DANCE AUSTRALIA [ON UNFOLDING] ‘This is frontier work, and Major is pushing its possibilities to a fascinating edge.’ INDEPENDENT IRELAND [ON SATORI AND UNFOLDING] Unfolding began as a company lockdown project during the global pandemic. Determined to continue creating together, even from a distance, we built and worked in a digital replication of a dance studio. A poor substitute for the real thing, we carried on with the idea that maybe one day, the resulting piece would get to meet an audience. When we finally managed to gather in a theatre together, I was struck to see how much of that most valuable and distant currency of our time – touch – played in the choreography. In the digital overload that the pandemic necessitated in our lives, to be back in a room with breathing, sweating bodies was a welcome moment of respite. With the final choreography created in tandem with lighting and visuals by creative coder Fausto Brusamolino and music by long-standing collaborator, James Brown, Unfolding became for us the living embodiment of that other commodity in such short supply in 2020: hope. Satori meanwhile envisions a revolving universe of impermanence and shifting atmospheres amongst different patterns of sound, light, and movement. I’ve always been fascinated by the illusion of distance and nearness that can be conveyed by lighting on stage. The work seeks to highlight different patterns coming together to create a constellation of suspension and movement - a constant flow of light and sound emanating from darkness and then returning to that state. All this with and through the dancers as the locus, generating their own rhythms and luminosity. |
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MARKETING MATERIALS
Unfolding Photos
Satori Photos
2 min trailer (editable version available on request)
20 sec trailer (editable version available on request)
Full Video of performance for promotors/producers available on request. Please email [email protected] for more information.
Satori Photos
2 min trailer (editable version available on request)
20 sec trailer (editable version available on request)
Full Video of performance for promotors/producers available on request. Please email [email protected] for more information.