Jenny Ritchie

Jenny 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. 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 and was a choreographic collaborator and performer for experimental aerial apparatus in the international touring show Rigolo. She has completed an Honours Degree in Visual Arts as well as collaborating with Movement of The Human and The World of Wearable Arts. Jenny also works as a textile artist and stunt artist for film and television projects, a field with complimentary practices that feed into her choreographic and aerial apparatus design work. She has worked for Free Theatre as a performer, aerial trainer and costume designer on Frankenstein(2016), The Black Rider (2017) and A Winter’s Tale (2019)

Frankenstein (2016)