LEWIS MAJOR
  • About
  • Work
  • contact
  • WORK ELSEWHERE
  • PRESS
  • FUNDRAISING

SATORI AND UNFOLDING
BY LEWIS MAJOR

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. 

SATORI AND UNFOLDING TECHNICAL RIDER
File Size: 178 kb
File Type: pdf
Download File

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 info@lewismajorprojects.com for more information.
Copyright ©  Lewis Major Projects 2020

    STAY IN TOUCH

Subscribe to Newsletter
  • About
  • Work
  • contact
  • WORK ELSEWHERE
  • PRESS
  • FUNDRAISING

SATORI AND UNFOLDING
BY LEWIS MAJOR

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. 

SATORI AND UNFOLDING TECHNICAL RIDER
File Size: 178 kb
File Type: pdf
Download File

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 info@lewismajorprojects.com for more information.