ABOUT
Harrison Ritchie-Jones is a independent dancer, choreographer and filmmaker based in Naarm (Melbourne)
Harrison’s 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, humor and physical virtuosity to work together in surreal and expressive explorations of storytelling.
His work has a sense of celebrating movement, authenticity, obsession, determination, & risk.
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Biography
Harrison graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Dance) in 2014. In 2013, he was awarded a Victorian College of the Arts Undergraduate Most Outstanding Creative Scholarship. In 2018 he was nominated for a Green Room Award for Best Male Performer for Stephanie Lake’s Pile of Bones. In 2018 he was selected for Next Wave’s kickstart program and premiered his work Shimmer Of The Numinous in Next Wave Festival. In 2023 he presented his latest major dance work CUDDLE that premiered at Chunky Move as a part of FRAME festival. Recently his dance film Banshee Cried Silver was presented in FRAME festival at the substation, Dance lens in Melbourne and will be being shared later this year in Sydney and Perth.
Harrison has worked with, and performed in creations by some of the country’s best choreographers including Stephanie Lake, Jo Lloyd, Antony Hamilton, Lucy Guerin, Graeme Murphy, Alistaire Macindoe, Prue Lang, Shelly Lasica, Rebecca Hilton and Rebecca Jensen.
