Hi.
My Name is Lawrence Ritchie and I am a viennese mover and creative. I am working as a movement educator as well as in the fields of theatre, dance and visual arts.

My Bio:
By the age of 12 I´ve started to partake in modern chinese wushu classes which triggered a deep and lasting urge to learn acrobatics. That urge led to 9+ years of intensive training of martial arts tricking. After participating in tricking events all around europe and after gaining experience and recognition as a competitor and tricking atlethe an injury forced me to take a definitive break from extreme movements. Seeking new forms of expression I then dedicated the following years to the studies of different fields of art (independent film, multimedia arts, music) and eventually rediscovered a lasting passion for movement through dance and contemporary floorwork.

Intrigued by the concepts of softness, fluidity, sustainability and mindfulness I have studied with numerous inspiring movers (Tom Weksler, Akira Yoshida, Riku Watanabe, Richard Scrivener) and have partaken in a 3 years spanning dance education programme led by Matan Levkowich. Starting as a student in the Movement Lab, I am now co-teaching together with Matan in the “contemporary moves advanced” programme since Octobre 2023.
In 2022 I have co-founded the Arashi Collective, a vienna based movement collective with it´s own studio, the Arashi Movement Center, located in 1090 vienna. Our collective aspires to bring professional movement education programmes to a wider public and to contribute to the growth and diversification of a supporting viennese movement scene.

Since feburary 2022 I joined the theatre collective “Schall und Rauch Agency” with which I have since co-created two theatre pieces that premiered in 2022 and 2024.