Christopher Harrison

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Biography

 

Christopher Harrison trained at The Dance School of Scotland, and The Royal Ballet Upper School. Christopher joined Dresden State Opera, Germany, in 2001 and danced solo roles in Neumeier’s TheNutcracker, Swan Lake, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, as well as Derevianko’s Giselle and Don Quixote, and Lazzini’s La Fille mal gardée.   

 

He joined Scottish Ballet in Summer 2005, and was promoted to Coryphée in July 2007. He has danced in Page’s Cinderell, Nutcracker Divertissiments, Fearful Symmetries and The Sleeping Beauty (Bluebird and The Prince)Darrell’s Othello (Cassio),  Pastor’s In Light And Shadow, Robbins’ Afternoon Of A Faun, Balanchine’s Epsiodes and Agon and Forsythe’s Artifact Suite.

 

QUOTES

 

SPRING 2007
Balanchine's Agon
.Dancing Times, June 2007 - Adam Blyde, Gregory Dean and Christopher Harrison [are] particularly impressive.

 

Darrell's Othello
.Criticaldance.net, April 2007 - Blyde and Harrison, Blyde in particular, gave some of the finest dramatic and balletic performances I've seen from Scottish Ballet.
 

EIF 2006
Robbins’ Afternoon Of A Faun
 . ballet-dance.com, Aug 2006 – Scottish Ballet have placed their hopes on two young corps dancers – Christopher Harrison and Luisa Rocco. It was a gamble well worth taking… the couple was spellbinding. Well suited to the roles and each other, they kept the dream-like feeling of ballet going.

 

 . The Scotsman, 21 Aug 2006 – …Christopher Harrison and Luisa Rocco rehearse side by side in a studio, with the audience as their mirror. If they are the future of the company, then it’s looking bright.

 

 . ballet.co.uk, Aug 2006 - Christopher Harrison and Luisa Rocco are both young artists with the company, and they make you believe in it, raising the common-place and creating something revelatory.

 

 . Sunday Herald, 03 Sept 2006 - Luisa Rocco and Christopher Harrison dance like a teenage dream, developing an erotic charge.

 

Krzysztof Pastor’s In Light And Shadow
 . ballet-dance.com, Aug 2006 – Christopher Harrison in the third ballet of his opening night marathon was worthy of note – tonight, my eye was rarely off him.

 

 . ballet-dance.com, Aug 2006 – Here the men were the eye catchers, especially Gregory Dean and Christopher Harrison.

 

Balanchine’s Agon
 . ballet-dance.com, Aug 2006 - …with Gregory Dean, Christopher Harrison and Luke Ahmet in particular demonstrating a new found poise and power.