Harrison Ritchie-Jones is an independent dancer, choreographer and filmmaker based in Naarm, Melbourne. His choreographic practice celebrates dance and is fuelled by a curiosity in techniques from a range of physical practices. Upskilling and blending forms, he uses dance to carve out spaces for absurdity, humour and physical virtuosity to work together in surreal and expressive explorations of storytelling.
He has choreographed and offered movement direction for music videos, films, and dance theatre works. His work has a sense of celebrating movement, authenticity, obsession, determination, & risk.
Photo by Oliver Savariego
Biography
Harrison is graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts, Harrison has worked with many of
Australia’s most renowned choreographers including Stephanie Lake, Antony
Hamilton, Jo Lloyd, Lucy Guerin, Graeme Murphy, Alistair Macindoe, Prue Lang and
Shelly Lasica. Recent works created by Harrison and his collaborators include: CUDDLE
(Chunky Move/Frame Festival 2023, Arts House 2024, Sydney Dance Company’s INDance
2024), CLUBBLE (RISING 2024, MONA 2024), Cold-Tooth (Gertrude Contemporary
2024), BIG WIG SMALL GIG (Stephanie Lake Company’s ESCALATOR 2023),
Banshee Cried Silver (The Substation/Frame Festival 2023, Dancehouse/Dance
(Lens) 2023). Awards and accolades include a Victorian College of the Arts Undergraduate
Most Outstanding Creative Scholarship in 2013 and a Green Room Award Nomination for
Best Male Performer for Stephanie Lake’s Pile of Bones in 2018.
CREATIONS
Photo by Jo Duck
Producers: Michaela Coventry
Creative Director of Sage Arts
coventrymichaela@gmail.com
+61 412 535 548
whatsapp: 61412535548
The Booth: Abbotsford VIC 3067
instagram: @funkshuizy