Critical Path

Australia’s leading centre for choreographic research and development

 

WHAT’S ON

A lively group of dancers moves expressively across a large dance studio. At the centre, a dancer in pink pants and a white top leads with joyful energy, arms open wide. The other dancers follow in rhythmic, expansive gestures, filling the space with motion and connection.

COUNTERTECHNIQUE SUMMER WORKSHOP

5 Day Countertechnique Workshop with Senior Teacher Na-Ye Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Madeline Harms (Sydney, Australia).

23 FEB–27 FEB 2026
9:30AM–3PM
MON–FRI

BOOK HERE

 

 

An image taken at nighttime outside The Drill Hall on lawn beside the harbour. A person stands holding onto a large yellow ladder. Another person is captured in flight diving off the ladder into an inflatable baby pool.

2026 EXPERIMENTAL CHOREOGRAPHIC PROGRAM

Applications are open

15 DEC 2025 – Applications Open

14 JAN 2026 – Applications Close

APPLY HERE

 

Photo of a person dancing with an anatomical illustration of a human's internal organs attached to the person's clothed torso.

SUNCUT PERFORMANCE & SUMMER READING GROUP

Chloe Chignell is performing SUNCUT: a lover’s dictionary and hosting a summer reading group.

SUNCUT Performance:
25 JAN 2026
5PM–7:30PM
BOOK HERE

Reading Group:
13, 20, 27 JAN 2026
6:30PM–8PM
REGISTER HERE

 

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Critical Path

The Drill, 1C New Beach Rd,
Darling Point (Rushcutters Bay), Sydney

Critical Path respectfully acknowledges the Gadigal and Birrabirragal clans, the traditional custodians of the land where the organisation is based.

Critical Path respectfully acknowledges the Gadigal and Birrabirragal clans, the traditional custodians of the land where the organisation is based.

We acknowledge and uphold the UN Declaration on the rights of Indigenous peoples, which states that; “Indigenous peoples have the right of self-determination. By virtue of that right they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development.”

We support the freedom of First Nations expression and decision making within our organisation and acknowledge that First Peoples have been dancing, creating, and forging important research on these lands for time immemorial.