More about Jacinda Ratcliffe:
A 2021 recipient of the Make A Wave Grant through 3Arts, Ratcliffe is a Performing Artist and Jeff Award winning Movement Director & Choreographer based in Chicago.
Ratcliffe is a multi hyphenate whose range of experience includes film, commercial, straight plays, musicals, circus arts (aerial and ground skills), immersive theatre, devising, concert dance, commercial dance, movement direction, concert dance choreography, musical theatre choreography, teaching, writing, and whatever other demands there are of the project in front of her. In her spare time, she knits blankets.
She is represented by Big Mouth Talent.
Recent performance credits include PORTAL, ICE CREAM CIRCUS (Lookingglass Theatre); CIRCUS QUIXOTE (Lookingglass Theatre, McCarter Theatre); EVANSTON SALT COSTS CLIMBING, EXORCISE (First Floor Theater); GET OUT ALIVE (Haven Chicago, California Center for the Arts Escondido); THE LOVE OBJECT (The Story Theatre); and THE CABINET, WALK WITH LITTLE AMAL (Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival).
Dance film performance credits including Press On, Regardless (Dance for Life); Limelight Parade (Art on theMART, Merchandise Mart); Navy Pier Virtual Celebration (Navy Pier); I Am… Bold, Bald, Beautiful (TedX); and Happy Returns (Harris Theatre).
She has appeared in short films including Obadiah (produced by Nicholas Dunnigan, finalist at he East Village New York Film Festival), Hidden Note (produced by Wardlaw Productions), Winner (produced by Nick DiMaso), and Happy Songs About Unhappy Things (produced by Jamie Foxx and Datari Turner) as well as in several commercials (list avail upon request).
Dance Theater performing collaborator credits include FRANKENSTEIN A.I.: A MONSTER MADE BY MANY (Sundance Film Festival), THE GREAT AND TERRIBLE DOCTOR FAUSTUS (Striding Lion Performance Group), BELOW: AN UNDERWORLD STORY (Director Lucky Stiff), ENTRAINMENT (Voyeur Theatre Collective).
Theater Artistic Team credits include LITTLE RED (Actor’s Gymnasium, Dance Choreographer), PRELUDE TO A KISS (Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Assistant Choreographer), LAVENDER MEN (About Face Theatre, Movement Director), THE ISLAND** (Court Theatre, Movement Director); GET OUT ALIVE (Haven Theatre, Co-Choreographer*); LADY FROM THE SEA (Court Theatre, Associate Choreographer); LACED (About Face Theatre, Choreographer & Assistant Director); MLIMA’S TALE* (Griffin Theatre, Movement Director); THE ODE AT PINT’S END (Birch House Immersive Theater, Choreographer). She has also choreographed short films including Winner (produced by Nick DiMaso) and Happy Songs About Unhappy Things (produced by Jamie Foxx and Datari Turner).
*Jeff nomination
**Jeff win
Ratcliffe is an ensemble member with Lucky Plush Productions where she originated roles in CURB CANDY (Harris Theater), RINK LIFE (Steppenwolf 1700), RIGHT HERE (Links Hall), and FACING (in development).
She is on faculty at the Actor’s Gymnasium and Chicago Movement Collective, the latter of which she also serves as Assistant Director of the Collective and of the Claire Bataille Legacy Scholarship program. She additionally sits on the Board of Directors.
She graduated from Northwestern University with a B.A. in Dance and Psychology. Upon graduating, she studied on scholarship at Lou Conte Dance Studio, under Claire Bataille. She received additional dance training at The Washington School of Ballet, San Francisco Conservatory of Dance, Ballet Hispánico, and Hubbard Street Dance Chicago. She is a former company dancer with Winifred Haun & Dancers and Project Bound Dance.
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