Triptych

Alexander Abbot is a contemporary dancer and performance artist from Canberra. He began in hip-hop and breakdance before transitioning to contemporary dance through QL2 Dance under Ruth Osborne, later completing his tertiary training at WAAPA (2018).

Over the past decade, Alex has established a dynamic career across stage and screen, both nationally and internationally. He has danced with Brooke Leeder & Dancers, STRUT Dance (under Hofesh Shechter), SLIDE Youth Dance Company and Catapult Dance Company, touring Australia extensively from 2020 to 2023.

 In 2022, he joined NT Dance Company as male principal dancer, touring internationally across the UK. Since 2024 he has been a core collaborator with Shaun Parker & Company, performing at the Belgrade Dance Festival and winning a Green Room Award for Most Outstanding Duo.

Elsi Faulks trained at Norwood Ballet Centre in Adelaide before continuing her studies at the Victorian College of the Arts Secondary School (VCASS) and the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA). She has worked with Co:3, Sam Coren, Raewyn Hill, West Australian Ballet, and Sydney Dance Company and performed leading roles in the 2022 remount of Pina Bausch’s Tannhäuser.

Elsi joined Lewis Major Projects in 2024 and has since toured internationally with the company throughout Australasia, Europe, and the UK.

James Peter Brown is a highly accomplished composer and sound designer known for his emotive sonic landscapes and sensitive collaborations across theatre, film, installation, animation, video games, podcasts and virtual reality.

Ongoing artistic collaborations include Sydney Theatre Company, Victoria Hunt, ERTH, SOIT, POST and Kristina Chan, alongside commercial work for global brands including Heinz, Bethesda, Atlassian and Greenpeace.

Educated at Sydney College of the Arts and Sydney University, Brown holds a visual arts degree and a Master’s in Acoustic Physics. In 2020 he initiated an ongoing mentorship program for BIPOC composers and sound designers entering the Australian screen and stage industries. He is currently based in Sydney, continuing his practice-based research into the intersections of sound, technology and human experience.

Rowan Brunt is a creative producer and programmer with over a decade of experience delivering large-scale festivals, touring productions and artist development initiatives. As Executive Producer for Lewis Major Projects, he leads international touring strategy, presenter engagement and market development, building sustainable touring models and pathways for Australian work to reach global audiences.

Previously Head of Programs at Sydney Fringe Festival, his broader practice spans dramaturgy and independent producing, with a focus on supporting new Australian work. He brings a strong understanding of programming contexts, audience engagement and the operational realities of touring, acting as an effective intermediary between artists and presenters.

Rowan is a graduate of the 2023 VCA Masters of Dramaturgy and the 2025 PAC Australia Tour Producer Training Program.

Fausto Brusamolino is a lighting and visual artist based on Darug land, Australia. He devises lighting and generative visuals for live performance and film, and creates art installations, working across traditional venues like theatres and concert halls as well as unconventional spaces such as multi-level car parks, rooftops and abandoned locations.

His approach embraces a wide range of visual and video techniques alongside Creative Coding, building custom software for real-time control of lighting, video and scenic effects, dynamically manipulated as each performance unfolds.

Fausto has designed and collaborated on shows for Sydney Festival, Sydney Opera House, MONA, FuseBox Festival, Mona Foma, Adelaide Festival, Rising Festival, City Recital Hall, MCA, Biennale of Sydney and New Zealand International Arts Festival, among others. He received the 2025 Green Room Award for Outstanding Design for his lighting and vision design for Anito.

Felicity trained at the London Vocational Ballet School and then Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary dance where she graduated in 2022.

Stage Credits

Lewis Major Projects European and Australian Tour (2025/2026), A Single Man Royal Ballet Company x Factory International - Jonathan Watkins (2025), Ballet Nights Brisbane 324a - Joshua Junker (2024), The Snowman West End cast (2022/2025), Spectrum Culturebox L’émission/Resolution - Manon Servage (2024).

Film/TV

Sky TV promotion for contemporary ballet (2024) ,The Witcher (2025), Bridgerton (2026), My Life Julia Cummings - Jennifer White (2026).

Felicity’s guest international contemporary teaching credits include, The Royal Ballet School London, Ballet Night Brisbane, TW Dance Productions Germany. 

Frankie is a lighting designer working on Gadigal land; across dance, theatre and installation. They take a keen interest in how light and aesthetics enhance and encourage the dramaturgy of a work, and how these forms alter sensory experience in space. 

Their recent designs for dance include Marcus Whale’s Ecstasy, both at Liveworks in 2024 and Rising in 2025, Martin del Amo, Sue Healey, Tra Mi Dinh and Mitchell Christie’s MSTM at Campbelltown Arts Centre 2025, Common Place by Omer Backley-Astrachan and Jana Castillo, and a number of other performances and collaborations with FORM Dance since 2018. Their designs for theatre have lit stages across Carriageworks, The Substation Melbourne, Sydney Opera House, Arts Centre Melbourne, Riverside Theatres, Belvoir 25A, The Old Fitz, KXT and PACT, and have been nominated for Best Lighting Design of an Independent Production for several works.

They have a strong passion for ongoing collaboration within the dance and theatre community, having enjoyed being in frequent collaboration with Martin over the years; including this, Scary Piece of Work.

Lewis Major is an award-winning Bungandidj and Ngarrindjeri choreographer, director and creative entrepreneur with a background in sheep shearing and a foreground in contemporary dance theatre.

 He honed his skills in dancemaking over a decade spent working with seminal contemporary dance makers Akram Khan, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Russell Maliphant, Hans van den Broeck (Cie Soit/Les Ballets C de la B), Damien Jalet and Hofesh Shechter, amongst others. He was also a founding member of Aakash Odedra Company.

Unabashedly audience driven, the ethos that drives his work is local focus, global outlook. His company presents surprisingly real dance works in multiple mediums to diverse audiences across the world. He has created 17 different works both independently and on commission and has presented them on 6 continents to widespread critical and commercial success. His work has won over 30 awards across festivals and performance programs in Australia and internationally.

Tahlia Russell is an Australian contemporary dancer and recent graduate of Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance. Known for her versatility, physicality, and creative instinct, she has performed with leading choreographers and companies across the UK and Europe. 

Her credits include Akram Khan’s Jungle Book Reimagined (as lead soloist ‘Bagheera’) with Next Generation Festival and understudy in Crystal Pite’s Frontier with Ballet BC. She has also performed in Dresden Frankfurt Dance Company’s, Join at Sadler’s Wells East and took part in the creation of In(Edith) by Ermanno Sbezzo during Focus on Creation residency at Orsolina 28. She has also featured in Southpaw Company’s recent production of RIDE where she played the role of Lisa. 

She is now working with Lewis Major Projects for their UK and European Tour. Tahlia brings a deep commitment to collaboration, physical storytelling and continuous artistic growth in all aspects of her work and brings a sense of curiosity, play and love for movement into her dance practice.