JENNY RITCHIE
Jenny Ritchie is a visual artist, aerial artist and choreographer.
Over the last 20 years she has worked for contemporary circus companies and various productions both in Aotearoa and overseas where she often finds herself in a diversity of roles; as a performer, apparatus designer, aerial choreographer.
After graduating with a Diploma in Performing Arts (CircoArts) in 2003, she co-created a performance company in New Zealand and worked as an aerial artist and choreographer.
In 2008 Jenny moved to Montreal to become part of larger international projects. She has worked for Ex Machina, Robert Lepage’s interpretation of Das Rheingold for the Metropolitan Opera of New York and has toured internationally as an aerialist in Cavalia’s Odysséo. Jenny later moved to Zurich to take on a role as a choreographic collaborator and performer for experimental aerial apparatus in the international touring show Rigolo.
Since returning to New Zealand in 2017, she has completed an Honours Degree in Visual Arts as well as collaborating with Movement of The Human and The World of Wearable Arts as aerial choreographer and performer.
Jenny also works as a textile artist for film and television projects, as well as working in the world of Stunts, a field with complimentary practices that feed into her choreographic and aerial apparatus design work.
Jenny is the co-creator and aerial designer of BELLE - Performance of Air by Movement of the Human
https://www.jennyritchie.com