Michaela Coventry produces Harrison Ritchie-Jones’ major projects including Cuddle.
Harrison Ritchie-Jones is a independent dancer & choreographer based in Naarm (Melbourne)
https://www.harrisonritchiejones.com/
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 physical virtuosity to work together in surreal and expressive explorations of storytelling.
Harrison is a graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts and has worked as a dancer with many of Australia’s most renowned choreographers including Stephanie Lake, Antony Hamilton, Jo Lloyd, Lucy Guerin, Melanie Lane, Graeme Murphy, Alisdair Macindoe, Prue Lang and Shelly Lasica.
Recent works created by Harrison and his collaborators include: TANTRUM for 6 (Northcote Town Hall 2025, DARKMOFO:NIGHT MASS 2025), CUDDLE (Chunky Move/Frame Festival 2023, Arts House 2024, Sydney Dance Company’s INDance 2024, STRUT Dance and PICA’S Restore 2025), CLUBBLE (RISING 2024, MONA 2024), Cold-Tooth (Gertrude Contemporary 2024), JUNGLE FURY (Four Sites/Fringe Festival 2024), BIG WIG SMALL GIG (Stephanie Lake Company’s ESCALATOR 2023), Banshee Cried Silver (The Substation/Frame Festival 2023, Dancehouse/Dance (Lens) 2023), Shimmer of the Numinous (2019 Next Wave/Brunswick Mechanics Institute 2019).
Awards and accolades include 2024 Green Room Awards for Most Outstanding Creation in Dance for CUDDLE and Breaking Ground in Dance for Body of Work across 2024. A 2018 Green Room Award Nomination for Best Male Performer for Stephanie Lake’s Pile of Bones. Best Film Award for Banshee Cried Silver at Sydney Short Film Biennale by CINEVERSE in 2023
Latest Project
R.A.I.N
R.A.l.N is an investigation into the garage-madè syllabus and logics that dancers Harrison Ritchie-Jones and Michaela Tancheff have created over the past 4 years.
Narratives respawn, hijacked by new fictions and obsessions.The act of consolidating has caused the past to be haunted by the future and the future haunted by the past
Choreographer and Dancer: Harrison Ritchie-Jone
Dancer: Michaela Tancheff
Composers: Moses Carr & Nick Roder
Costume Designer: Andrew Treloar
Producer: Michaela Coventry
28th August 2025 at 6pm + 29th August 2025 at 2pm
Chunky Move – 111 Sturt Street Southbank
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