JENNY RITCHIE
Aerial Choreographer - Aerial Apparatus Design - Costume Designer - Collaborator.
Jenny is a multidisciplinary artist specialising in visual arts, costume, aerial apparatus design and choreography.
Over the past 20 years Jenny has worked with a wide range of contemporary circus, live performance and film production companies based both overseas and in Aotearoa.
The diversity of her career has allowed her to explore many roles in a variety of performance industries, from working as a movement artist with Robert Lepage’s ‘Ex Machina’ for the Metropolitan Opera of New York to touring internationally as a choreographer and performer for experimental Zurich Contemporary Circus company Rigolo, to her current roles as Aerial Director for The World of Wearable Art and Costume work for NZ Film and Television.
Her strengths lie in team collaboration and any realm where bodies and design collide.
Jenny is the co-creator and aerial designer of BELLE - Performance of Air by Movement of the Human
https://www.jennyritchie.com