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Key Dates – 2026 Experimental Choreographic Program

Key Dates – 2026 Experimental Choreographic Program

Tuesday 2 December, 9am - Monday 15 December, 2025 11pm

2026 EXPERIMENTAL CHOREOGRAPHIC PROGRAM 2026 PROGRAM DATES 2–14 March: Experimental Choreographic Residency 16–28 March: Experimental Choreographic Lab   APPLICATION DATES 9 December 2025: Online Information Session – Register Here 15 December 2025: Applications...

CRITICAL PRACTICE with Peter Banki

CRITICAL PRACTICE with Peter Banki

Thursday 20 November, 6pm - Thursday 11 December, 2025 9pm

Grief and Pleasure as Research and Play Grief and Pleasure as Research and Play is a four-week Critical Practice series facilitated by Peter Banki.   We often think of pleasure and grief as spontaneous states that arise in the body. Curiosity about pleasure is...

CRITICAL PRACTICE with Victoria Hunt

CRITICAL PRACTICE with Victoria Hunt

Performance Workshop Series

Wednesday 19 November - Wednesday 10 December, 2025

METAMORPHETIC FIRE: Decolonial Repatterning for Artists and Activists An intensive performance workshop series exploring creativity as a site of transformation, radical remembering, and embodied resistance. METAMORPHETIC FIRE invites artists, activists, seekers, and...

CRITICAL PRACTICE with Louie Wisby

CRITICAL PRACTICE with Louie Wisby

Monday 17 November - Monday 8 December, 2025

Translating anatomies Translating anatomies is a four-week Critical Practice series led by Louie Wisby.   This research is an inquiry into how the concepts we have of our bodies inform the ways that we move them. Using techniques from and drawing on physical...

Launch of Critical Dialogues #16 and the “Vignettes flickers fades” project

Launch of Critical Dialogues #16 and the “Vignettes flickers fades” project

Sunday 16 November, 11am - Sunday 16 November, 2025 1pm

Publication launch and archival project  Join us for the launch of the special edition of Critical Dialogues celebrating 20 years of Critical Path. Edited by Ira Ferris. The publication launch is accompanied by the archival project “Vignettes flickers fades”,...

EVERY WILD IDEA

EVERY WILD IDEA

Friday 14 November, 7pm - Sunday 16 November, 2025 3pm

A 3-DAY FESTIVAL CELEBRATING 20 YEARS OF CRITICAL PATH Critical Path celebrates two decades of choreographic innovation in the Drill Hall. Throughout the weekend, we open our doors for all curious minds to witness artists at work, experience dance archives in sound...

BREAKTHROUGHS

BREAKTHROUGHS

Friday 14 November, 7pm - Sunday 16 November, 2025 3pm

Multiscreen Installation by filmmaker Deborah May What happens when we follow a flash of inspiration over time? The moment when memories, cultures and fragments of practice connect with renewed vitality. For artists committed to a lifetime of exploration, these...

EVERY WILD IDEA curated by Azzam Mohamed

EVERY WILD IDEA curated by Azzam Mohamed

Friday 14 November, 7pm - Friday 14 November, 2025 9pm

Live Performance Event Every Wild Idea, our 3-day festival celebrating 20 years of Critical Path, opens with a live performance event curated by artist Azzam Mohamed. In the spirit of experimentation, research and risk-taking, seven artists are invited to take part in...

CRITICAL PATH AND C-LAB IN LIVEWORKS 2025

CRITICAL PATH AND C-LAB IN LIVEWORKS 2025

Wednesday 22 October, 8pm - Saturday 25 October, 2025 8pm

I Remember What The Machine Remembers What I Remember : 我記得住機器記住我記住的 "Data leaves our separate bodies and returns as a shared (if corrupted) memory. Bodies of data, amalgamated and discorporate. Our incantation invokes the memory. If this festival is a venue for...

LYON DANCE BIENNALE 2025

LYON DANCE BIENNALE 2025

Saturday 6 September, 6pm - Sunday 28 September, 2025 11pm

Critical Path is thrilled to be travelling to the Lyon Dance Biennale 2025 The Keir Foundation, in partnership with Critical Path, is offering five International Travel Fellowships for artists to attend the Lyon Dance Biennale this September and its programs FORUM and...

CRITICAL PRACTICE with Lee-Anne Litton

CRITICAL PRACTICE with Lee-Anne Litton

Thursday 31 July, 6pm - Thursday 28 August, 2025 9pm

A Series of Experiments  A Series of Experiments is a five-part movement class and choreographic research series led by Lee-Anne Litton. Designed for emerging and established professionals alike, this series offers a space to explore compatible practices through...

CRITICAL PRACTICE with Dwayne Lawler

CRITICAL PRACTICE with Dwayne Lawler

Wednesday 30 July - Wednesday 27 August, 2025

Butoh: How to Be Present and Have Presence  A 5-week workshop series with Dwayne Lawler. This series covers the fundamentals of Butoh training including the use of imagery, visualisation techniques and ‘choreo-impro’ (improvisation within a structured pattern of...

CRITICAL PRACTICE with Victoria Hunt

CRITICAL PRACTICE with Victoria Hunt

Performance Workshop Series

Monday 14 July, 6pm - Monday 4 August, 2025 9pm

METAMORPHETIC STORM: Decolonial Repatterning for Artists and Activists An intensive performance workshop series exploring creativity as a site of transformation, radical remembering, and embodied resistance. METAMORPHETIC STORM invites artists, activists, seekers, and...

CREATE SPACE RESIDENCY AT THE SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE

CREATE SPACE RESIDENCY AT THE SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE

Monday 14 July, 6pm - Monday 4 August, 2025 9pm

TREMOR2 BY HELENE MARKSTEIN In partnership with the Sydney Opera House and their Create Space Artist Residency Program, Critical Path is supporting performance maker, designer-scenographer Dr Helene Markstein. During her August 2025 residency, Markstein is developing...

Critical Practice with Reina Takeuchi, Takeshi Matsumoto & Hoyori Maruo

Critical Practice with Reina Takeuchi, Takeshi Matsumoto & Hoyori Maruo

Thursday 5 June - Thursday 3 July, 2025

Koyo (紅葉) – a 5-week workshop series with Reina Takeuchi, Takeshi Matsumoto & Hoyori Maruo as part of CRITICAL PRACTICE Koyo (紅葉) refers to the red, orange, and yellow leaves that change colour every autumn, and the tradition of appreciating colours during the...

Marrow Workshop with Australian Dance Theatre

Marrow Workshop with Australian Dance Theatre

Wednesday 4 June - Wednesday 2 July, 2025

Join ADT for a 3-hour workshop exploring company repertoire Internationally renowned and Kaurna Yerta/Adelaide based company, Australian Dance Theatre invites dancers to join the company for a workshop exploring ADT’s explosive work Marrow. Bracingly honest, Marrow is...

We Are Here – Company in Residence

We Are Here – Company in Residence

Wednesday 4 June - Wednesday 2 July, 2025

Company 'We Are Here' is working in residence at Critical Path in 2025 We Are Here Company makes hi fi work in lo fi ways. Borne out of ENCOUNTER, led by Emma Saunders and the drive to continue making work. We began in 2020, in partnership with FORM Dance Projects in...

Resonance Workshop with James Batchelor

Resonance Workshop with James Batchelor

Wednesday 4 June - Wednesday 2 July, 2025

Join choreographer James Batchelor for a 3-hour workshop exploring his work Resonance, premiering in IDEA'25. ... DATE 20 SEPTEMBER 2025 SATURDAY 11AM - 2PM LOCATION THE DRILL HALL, CRITICAL PATH 1C NEW BEACH ROAD, DARLING POINT, NSW, 2027 GADIGAL & BIRRABIRRAGAL...

Critical Practice with Lian Loke

Critical Practice with Lian Loke

Monday 2 June - Monday 30 June, 2025

Energy Image Flow – a 5-week workshop series with Lian Loke as part of CRITICAL PRACTICE Energy Image Flow is an enquiry into the intersection of Qigong energy cultivation with movement improvisation for dance and performance. Qigong is an Eastern Daoist system that...

EXPERIMENTAL CHOREOGRAPHIC SHOWING

EXPERIMENTAL CHOREOGRAPHIC SHOWING

Saturday 12 April, 4pm - Saturday 12 April, 2025 6pm

Presented by Critical Path and Performance Space 4:00PM, SATURDAY 12 APRIL 2025   Join us for a work-in-progress showing by our 2025 Experimental Choreographic Lab artists Emma Maye Gibson, Sarah Kalule, Keila Terencio de Paula, Kino McHugh and Mitchell Christie....

WE CREATE SAFE SPACES REPORT LAUNCH

WE CREATE SAFE SPACES REPORT LAUNCH

3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Sunday 16 March, 3pm - Sunday 16 March, 2025 5pm

We Create Safe Spaces Report Launch 3:00PM, SUNDAY 16 MARCH 2025   Critical Path's First Nations Artist-Curator Jasmin Sheppard invites you to the launch of the report We Create Safe Spaces.  Please join us on March 16 at 3:00 PM for drinks and nibbles, screening...

ARTIST PICNIC 2025

ARTIST PICNIC 2025

Saturday 8 March, 11am - Saturday 8 March, 2025 3pm

CRITICAL PATH IS 20! 11AM TO 3PM, SATURDAY 8 MARCH 2025 Join us to celebrate our 20th Birthday with a jam-packed program of performances, talks and workshops.  Critical Path has been championing our community of independent dance artists and nurturing choreographic...

Critical Practice with Eliza Cooper

Critical Practice with Eliza Cooper

Wednesday 12 February - Wednesday 12 March, 2025

Contemporary Folk Dance – a 5-week workshop series with Eliza Cooper as part of CRITICAL PRACTICE Eliza is researching British folk dances and developing choreographic materials based on their rhythms, structures and functions. In 2023, she undertook the Rapport...

CRITICAL PRACTICE with Victoria Hunt

CRITICAL PRACTICE with Victoria Hunt

Monday 10 February, 6pm - Monday 10 March, 2025 9pm

Metemorphetic States: Bodies, Entities, Forces, Atmospheres – a 5-week workshop series with Victoria Hunt as part of CRITICAL PRACTICE Based on the success of Victoria's 8-week practice series in 2024, Victoria returns to Critical Path to lead a continuation of this...

animate intimacies: body weather /\ voice being

animate intimacies: body weather /\ voice being

Saturday 18 January - Sunday 19 January, 2025

A two-day immersive workshop by weather beings - a performance collaborative co-founded by Victoria Hunt and Moe Clark. Drawing from principles that animate beyond human kinships and call backwards into the future of indigiqueer brilliance and Indigenous knowledges,...

UNVEILINGS / Wonder If

UNVEILINGS / Wonder If

Saturday 23 November, 6pm - Saturday 23 November, 2024 6pm

Transforming an iconic heritage building through experimental choreography and visual arts Critical Path will transform the iconic, heritage building, The Drill Hall, with an experimental choreography and visual arts performance, UNVEILINGS / Wonder If by Katya...

SHARING: The Art of Slowing Down to Save Our Lives

SHARING: The Art of Slowing Down to Save Our Lives

Friday 11 October, 3pm - Friday 11 October, 2024 7pm

Critical Path invites you to a sharing of research results, reflections and practices with Paul Walker from their 2024 Responsive Residency project - ‘The Art of Slowing Down to Save Our Lives’. ... INVITATION "My research considers what the individual, collective and...

UNVEILINGS // Mudrāsā মুদ্রাসা

UNVEILINGS // Mudrāsā মুদ্রাসা

Friday 11 October, 3pm - Friday 11 October, 2024 7pm

Dance, at the intersection of visual art, installation and performance art. ... FROM THE ARTIST "MUDRASA is my own merging of two words mudra (gesture) and rasa (essence),that is the title of a three-day intensive dance residency at Critical Path. I will expand upon...

IDEA’24 creative developments with Critical Path

IDEA’24 creative developments with Critical Path

Saturday 31 August - Friday 13 September, 2024

Critical Path and FORM Dance Projects are excited to support the creative developments of Alex Craig, Speak Percussion and Azzam Mohamed and Lee-Anne Litton for IDEA'24. IDEA is a new Sydney based festival of creative ideas, workshops and performances delivered by...

WHAT REMAINS [MELBOURNE]

WHAT REMAINS [MELBOURNE]

Celebrating the Keir Choreographic Award 2014-2024

Saturday 24 August, 5pm - Saturday 24 August, 2024 10pm

Critical Path, The Keir Foundation and Creative Australia invite you to celebrate a decade of the pivotal Keir Choreographic Award in Melbourne on 24 August. --- 📆: 24 AUGUST 2024 🕔: 5PM - 10PM 📍: ABBOTSFORD CONVENT RSVP HERE WHAT REMAINS is a celebratory program that...

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