Lewis Major is an award-winning choreographer, emerging producer and creative entrepreneur from the deep south of regional South Australia. Not having set foot in a theatre until his mid-teens, he finds it ironic to now be working in the most maligned and misunderstood sector of the arts industry: Contemporary Dance.

He’s the only artist he’s ever heard of who can shear a sheep, has danced alongside Hugh Jackman and travelled to all three axis-of-evil countries. His work is invested in the potential of choreography and performance to inform a cultural discourse between peoples and to enable affective experiences across race, gender and identity.

As a performer and maker, he has worked with Akram Khan, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Russell Maliphant, Shaun Parker, Hans van Den Broeck/Cie Soit, Hofesh Shechter and Australian Dance Theatre.  He was a founding member of Aakash Odedra Company in the UK and now runs his own project-based company, Lewis Major Projects. He is dedicated to dignifying and supporting other dance artists through his work by initiating collaborative projects, producing work and initiating exchange.

He has choreographed 17 dance pieces and his work has been presented across Australia, Europe, America and Asia by, amongst others, Aarhus (Denmark), Centre des Arts Enghien Les Bains (France), Curve Theatre (UK), DanceXchange (UK), Festival de Mayo (Mexico), La Comete (France), La Maison de la Musique de Nantere (France), Maison des Arts de Creteil (France), Pavilion Dance (UK), Royal Opera House (UK), Impulstanz Festival (Austria), Ars Electronica Festival (Austria), TED Global (Brazil), Dadong Arts Centre (Taiwan), Esplanade Theatres (Singapore), Lyric Theatre and Sheun Wan Theatre (Hong Kong), Baryshnikov Art Centre (NYC) & The Place (London).