Critical Path

Australia’s leading centre for choreographic research and development

 

Supporting independent Australian choreographers to push the boundaries of contemporary practice.

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Cloe Fournier

CRITICAL DIALOGUES #15: TIME

Contributions by Kay Armstrong, Nareeporn Vachananda, Rhiannon Newton, el waddingham, Natalie Quan Yau Tso, Laura Osweiler, as well as the transcript of the 2023 March Dance conversation ‘What happens in the pause?’ and a review of Angela Goh’s ‘Axe Arc Echo’.

From essays and academic texts to performance scripts and instructional scores, these works are written by dancers and movement-artists acutely attuned to time from corporeal perspective. They contemplate the relationship between human-time and the geological scale of time that surrounds them, the impact of gravity on one’s perception of time, the relationship between urgency and intergenerational trauma, the way that time (via memory) leaves residues within the body, the dizzying affect of epic regularity, and the value of pause in circumventing habits and accessing new possibilities.

Edited by Ira Ferris
Graphic design by Zoe Baumgartner

Wayout in Kandos

2024 RESPONSIVE RESIDENCIES

The 2024 Responsive Residents are: Keila Terencio, Paul Walker, and Victoria Hunt.

Keila is working on the research project: “Choreography for Two Bodies One Mind” which investigates forms of choreography through the artform of puppetry.

Paul Walker is exploring the act of slowing down and resting as a practice to bring the planet into healthier relationships of care.

Victoria Hunt is exploring the “prophetic body” and “transmorphic states”considering “how do we embody the urgent grief cry of the world?”

Emele Ugavule

EOI call out: 2024 ECP

In partnership with Performance Space, we are now accepting applications for our annual Experimental Choreographic Residency (ECR) and the additional Experimental Choreographic LAB.

Available to an artist or collaboration from around Australia and Aotearoa (New Zealand), the ECR supports the development of innovative, bold and experimental approaches to choreography.

When applying for the ECR residency, NSW-based artists can elect to be considered for the Experimental Choreographic Lab as well; an opportunity for a small group of artists to connect with experienced practitioners, explore their work in a collaborative setting, and expand their choreographic skills and techniques. 

EOI closes Tuesday 2 April 2024

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Critical Path

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

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

Critical Path respectfully acknowledges the Gadigal, 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.