Nominations & Awards

Unfolding (Lighting and Visual Designer): WINNER of Award for Adelaide Fringe Festival Weekly Award 2023, Adelaide Fringe

Golden Blood (Lighting Designer): Nomination for Best New Australian Work Sydney Theatre Award 2022

Unfolding and S/Words (Lighting and Visual Designer): WINNER of APDG Award Best Lighting Design for a Live Performance 2022

The Nightline (Lighting Designer): Nomination for APDG Best Lighting Design for a Live Performance 2022

Unfolding (Lighting and Visual Designer): WINNER of Award for Adelaide Fringe Festival Weekly Award 2022, Adelaide Fringe

TangiWai (Lighting and Mist Designer): WINNER of Award for Best Visual  Design, 2018, Green Room Award

Dignity of Risk (Lighting Designer): WINNER Best Production for Young People 2017, Sydney Theatre Awards

TangiWai (Lighting and Mist Designer): Nomination for Best Visual or Physical Theatre Production 2016 Helpmann Awards

TangiWai (Lighting and Mist Designer): Nomination for 2016 Australian Dance Award for Outstanding Achievement in Independent Dance

TangiWai (Lighting and Mist Designer): Nomination for "Best on Stage" 2015 SMAC awards

The Secret Noise (Lighting Designer): WINNER APRA/AMC Award as Best Instrumental Work of the Year 2015

Press

"Stagecraft at its purest and best” “… both metamorphic and stylistically beautiful” “…the work here is a solid 10 out of 10 as it utilises the whole space, with lighting that traverses the fourth wall”

Jessi Ryan, Artshub on Anito

When Lewis Major’s Unfolding premiered at the Adelaide Festival in 2021, it was much praised for its near-perfect fusion of design, light and movement. Having gone on to tour internationally in 2022, it returns to Adelaide for a short season as tremendously confident and accomplished work. The use of light - extraordinary 3D projections by lighting and visual artist Fausto Brusamolino - is instantly memorable, richly textured and utterly captivating, as different environments enfold the dancers and as they weave in and out of vertical shafts and silos…

Peter Burdon, The Advertiser on Unfolding

Fausto Brusamolino designs and programs the lights for Unfolding to create moving visual art that the dancers perform inside of… It’s impressive to see visual art made just through light blend and support the dance to the point that neither can exist without the other… Brusamolino balances the mixture of light and dark on stage to create shifting atmosphere of comfort and conflict… Unfolding will be remembered for a long time for its exceptional use of programmed lighting and visual art with dance.

Anita Sanders, Performing Arts Hub on Unfolding

“Beautiful performance. Lighting design was amazing!”

“It was beautiful, engaging and thought provoking. Everything was superb - music, ambience and the lighting. Thank you so much for making amazing performances accessible to everyone”

“STUNNING! Feels like my atoms were zapped and rearranged - still buzzing. Especially loved the lighting states/design”

“I was particularly surprised and impressed by the lighting and how it enhanced the percussive performance. A deeply enriching way to experience what I expected was going to be a primarily musical (sound) performance.”

“The lighting at the end was incredible!”

Audience reviews on Sound Touch at Phoenix Central

The beautiful, animated illumination, perfectly synchronised with the unfurling beats of the music and the movements of the dancers, becomes a crucial element in the performance, creating dizzying, beautiful illusions of narrow, spinning bridges of light on which the dancers appear to balance, or round petri-dish constellations of tiny white stars that pour over the bodies of the two female dancers, who, having removed their black costumes, become vulnerably, beautifully human as they curl and intertwine in the living light… The animated light bears something of the hyper-real, glitch-pulse feel of video games, but it is no less striking or original for that, providing a foil for the visceral sense of isolation and yearning for human connection contained within the choreography.

Katherine Tamiko Arguile, InDaily Adelaide on Unfolding

The show opens with Unfolding, a lyrical piece for four very talented dancers who explore the unfolding nature of relationships. These movements are elegantly subtle and sublime and blend beautifully with some of the most spectacular lighting created by the masterful Fausto Brusamolino.

Bob Becker, Hi Five Way on Unfolding

This is an exquisite work, a perfect fusion of design, light and movement.

Maggie Tonkin, Dance Australia on Unfolding

Lighting designer Fausto Brusamolino illuminates the stage beautifully across the double bill, demonstrating the breadth of his visual palette, from eye-squinting haze to flashes of piercing light.

Tanya Rodin / Nina Levy (Seesaw) on double bill design Wasps at War and Platypus

Design elements are the real stars of the show – wafts of mist, crackling lines of light, cacophonous and chthonic sounds. Fragmented bodies emerge slowly from the darkness: sometimes angular and almost inhuman in the shadows, at other moments filleted by light so that all we see are hips and legs, like ancient fertility images.

Performing ArtsHub on TangiWai

.... Lighting an outdoor performance is always tricky, particularly when the show spans a period of three and a half hours. Lighting designer, Fausto Brusamolino, keeps things relatively simple at first, allowing the natural light to do its work. As the sun sets, additional devices are brought into play, creating backdrops from the trees around the carpark and shadows that portent the stories to come. It is mindful, gentle work that avoids pulling attention away from the performers who are really the heart of the show.

Sydney Festival Review on Home Country

...lighting (Fausto Brusamolino) effectively transform the performance space, making it intimate and local and opening it out to a cosmological vision of the mutability of life, acquainting us with ghosts and the ever-present dead. 

Real Time Arts on the Spirit of Things

…It’s impressive to see visual art made just through light blend and support the dance to the point that neither can exist without the other. The dance is often informed by the shapes that the lights are creating and are key to understanding the commentary about the space.

Arts Hub on on Unfolding

The lighting design by Fausto Brusamolino is soft, effective and adequate. At no point does it bring attention to itself through extravagance or underuse.

Talking Arts on Ich Nibber Dibber

Fausto Brusamolino expertly utilises the space with his lighting design. This is a massive undertaking. 

Talking Arts on Home Country (the production was set in a four level carpark , including rooftop)

The projection and lighting design is exceptional. 

In Review on TangiWai

...But without question, the stars of the show are Fausto Brusamolino and Boris Morris Bagattini, whose light and mist designs  are often jaw-dropping in their inspired creativity and execution.

The Music on TangiWai

Technical production values are first class with lighting by Fausto Brusamolino 

Australian Stage on No End of Blame

The lighting works a treat

Sydney Arts Guide on The Moors

Finely crafted aural and visual imagery. ...a mysterious and rewarding experience, an immersive sharing

RealTime magazine on Obscene Madame D

The space is charged with a sense of wonderment, as though something esoteric has taken over Madame D’s depressed home and mind. Video projections by Sam James and lights by Fausto Brusamolino create a gloomy but seductive atmosphere; we never feel at ease, but this mysterious intrusion into Madame D’s sanctuary is a hauntingly beautiful experience

Sydney Theatre reviews on Obscene Madame D 

This is frontier work, and Major is pushing its possibilities to a fascinating edge

The Independent, Ireland, on Unfolding choreographed by Lewis Major