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Triptych Redux

 
Lisa Simonis Review by Lisa Simonis 4 Published: 12 Aug 2025 Zoo Southside Show Dates: 1 Aug 2025-24 Aug 2025

Lewis Major, world-renowned Australian choreographer, director, and creative entrepreneur, returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with Triptych Redux. This year, he takes to the stage himself for the first time in a decade, following a broken back injury that ended his dancing career yet inspired his move into choreography.

An unmissable exploration of the body’s resilience and the poetry of motion

In true Major style, Triptych Redux delivers a spectacle of dance and movement, paired with a poetic interplay of space, light, and sound. The design feels ominously captivating, with lighting as integral to the performance as the dancers and music. Moving lights play with shadows and shapes, weaving around and alongside the artists to create visual illusions that are magical and mesmerising. At times, dancer, sound, and lights merge into a single, otherworldly entity – an effect that lingers long after the piece ends.

Across four distinct sections, separated by brief pauses, Triptych Redux presents shifting visual and sensory landscapes, all uniquely immersive. The result is an awe-inspiring, hypnotic experience that holds audiences suspended between movement and stillness, light and shadow, reality and dream. It is an unmissable exploration of the body’s resilience and the poetry of motion, and a much-anticipated return for Major to the stage.

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For those that missed Lewis' entirely sold-out run in 2024, you're in luck – his life-changingly beautiful show is back, reduxed – if you managed to snag a ticket last time to this multi award-winning, highly decorated work, you're in for a surprise: Lewis has choreographed a new opening so the triple bill is now wholly his. See 'intense movers trip the light fantastic' (Guardian) for the last time before Lewis answers the call of the International Festival. A collocation of sound, light, movement, space, shape and form guaranteed to stir the emotions.