Program
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Tuesday 3 December - Thursday 5 December, 2024
Announcing our Quick Response Space Grant recipient for December 2024 - MaggZ ... Quick Response Space Grants give artists an opportunity to use The Drill Hall without any predetermined outcomes. Critical Path waives the venue hire fees for The Drill Hall for...
Friday 15 November - Sunday 24 November, 2024
BODY DATA LOOP 我記得住機器記住我記住的 BODY-DATA-LOOP is a live performance and installation resulting from 3 years of artistic exchanges between choreographic and technology artists in Australia and Taiwan. The project is working to interrogate the value of collaboration across...
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Monday 4 November - Thursday 28 November, 2024
Announcing our Quick Response Space Grant recipients for November 2024. ... Quick Response Space Grants give artists an opportunity to use The Drill Hall without any predetermined outcomes. Critical Path waives the venue hire fees for The Drill Hall for successful...
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Monday 21 October - Wednesday 18 December, 2024
Critical Practice is a weekly series of evening workshops at The Drill Hall from 21 October to 18 December. ... Critical Practice gives artists the opportunity to share findings from their practice to peers and the wider community via an open workshop setting spanning...
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Friday 4 October - Friday 4 October, 2024
Critical Path invites you to apply for a Quick Response Space Grant in The Drill Hall in November. ... These short Space Grants gives artists an opportunity to use The Drill Hall without any predetermined outcomes. Test an idea. Tune up the body. Play with...
Thursday 11 July - Tuesday 31 December, 2024
Jasmin Sheppard’s First Nations 2024 program takes place under the canopy of the title ‘Holding Space’. Holding Space in an Indigenous context means to create room for deep thinking, for big and hard questions, to make a safe place for great and important work; to be...
Wednesday 1 May, 12pm - Tuesday 31 December, 2024 12am
Do you need a dedicated time and space to undertake a comprehensive research for your new choreographic project? Time to read, write, collate images, sounds, video footage. Time to go through and make sense of previously written notes and/or recorded materials....
Tuesday 2 April, 12am - Tuesday 31 December, 2024 12am
LEAH LANDAU 4 to 17 March; 29 April to 12 May Leah will transcribe the recordings from her project Conversations on Performance: A Digestion, where she hosts a dinner with four dancers to talk about personal experiences regarding performance. "As we eat, we are...
Thursday 28 March, 12am - Tuesday 31 December, 2024 12am
As part of the 2024 Critical Path Responsive Residency Program, Keila is working on a research project “Choreography for Two Bodies One Mind” which investigates forms of choreography through the artform of puppetry. With choreographer Cloé Fournier and puppetry...
Tuesday 5 March, 12am - Tuesday 31 December, 2024 12am
As part of the 2024 Critical Path Residency Program, Victoria is exploring the “prophetic body” and “transmorphic states”, deepening the relationship with Māori worldview and concepts such as Whakapapa (relational connectivity with all that is), Kaupapa (sacred...
Sunday 21 January, 12am - Tuesday 31 December, 2024 12am
Morning Classes at the Drill with Luxembourg-based choreographer Jill Crovisier Monday 29 and Tuesday 30 January, 9.30-11am FREE with registration required. These classes are suitable for those with movement experience. You don’t necessarily need to be...
Monday 1 January, 12am - Tuesday 31 December, 2024 12am
9 to 11 January: Noha Ramadan and Charlie Laban Trier worked on the project 'When ghosts dance, speculative gods respond'. 16 to 18 January: Carmen Yih, the recipient of Critical Path / Sharp Short Dance Space Grant (partnership with FORM Dance Projects’), developed...
Friday 8 December, 2023 12am - Tuesday 31 December, 2024 12am
Victoria Hunt, Keila Terencio, Paul Walker have been selected as our 2024 Responsive Residents. VICTORIA HUNT (March, 2024) Victoria Hunt will use the residency to consider "how I am able to grow my capacities to hold space for others". "How do we feel our connection...
Thursday 7 December, 2023 12pm - Sunday 30 June, 2024 12am
Do you need a dedicated time and space to undertake a comprehensive research for your new choreographic project? Time to read, write, collate images, sounds, video footage. Time to go through and make sense of previously written notes and/or recorded materials....
Wednesday 8 November, 12am - Sunday 31 December, 2023 12am
The 15th edition of our bi-annual publication Critical Dialogues will focus on the editorial theme: 'TIME' We are calling for contributions from those engaged in dance (in whatever capacity) who are interested in reflecting on TIME as a choreographic tool, concept, or...
Tuesday 5 September, 2023 - Monday 2 September, 2024
APPLICATIONS CLOSE MIDNIGHT, MONDAY 16 OCTOBER 2023 Critical Path is offering 3 Responsive Residencies for 2024. NSW artists with a choreographic practice are invited to propose research projects that focus on explorations of new ideas or practice development without...
Tuesday 5 September, 2023 - Monday 2 December, 2024
In botany grafting is a horticultural practice in which a branch or bud of one plant is attached to the stem or a root of another plant so that a union is formed and the partners continue to grow. This October, we have invited three dance artists/teams to spend a week...
Thursday 3 August, 2023 - Monday 2 December, 2024
From mid August till mid November 2023, our RESEARCH ROOM will be a beehive of choreographic research with seven selected artists reflecting on their past practices and/or brainstorming and consolidating ideas for their future projects. Their areas of research cover:...
Thursday 29 June, 12pm - Sunday 31 December, 2023 12am
Do you need dedicated time and space to undertake a comprehensive research for your new choreographic project? Time to read, write, collate images, sounds, video footage. Time to go through and make sense of previously written notes and/or recorded materials....
Wednesday 14 June, 12am - Sunday 16 July, 2023 12am
Nikki is researching and thinking about a new performance work generated through embodied writing practices. The project straddles spoken word and extended vocal sound arising through breath and gesture, touching on the limits of perception and precarious transitional...
Wednesday 31 May, 2023 - Friday 31 May, 2024
We are delighted to open The Drill Hall in this cooler and darker winter months to a group of artists whose choreographic explorations range from cultural dancing roots to autumnal phase of life, from co-existence within the land, waterways and skies to...
Friday 28 April, 12am - Tuesday 16 May, 2023 12am
This winter season, we are offering a range of either one or two-week long residencies and invite you to come keep the space warm whilst exploring and experimenting with your choreographic ideas and research, without the pressure of an outcome. The residency is open...
Saturday 25 March - Sunday 26 February, 2023
A creative practice workshop with Naarm (Melbourne) based choreographer Zoë Bastin to develop a new project Celestial. We'll be working with scored improvisation, Creative Dance techniques and imagery from renaissance painting. Across the two days there will be...
Monday 20 March - Friday 31 March, 2023
Reina Takeuchi and Tom Kentta will work on the development of Peripheries, a collaboration between football freestylers, skaters and movers. Coming together to create shared movement, Peripheries explores the casual beauty of the suburbs, from pigeons, to youths...
Friday 17 March - Friday 17 March, 2023
Cultural organisations in NSW have joined forces to offer dance artists space to create, connect and share their practice once a month from March – December 2023. One Day For Day will see Bangarra, Bankstown Arts Centre, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Carriageworks,...
Monday 13 March - Thursday 16 March, 2023
Creative development of Weighted in Time. Dr Laura (Amara) Osweiler and collaborator Paul Osborne share Laura’s story of living with Cataplexy (when the body goes into REM stage but the mind is awake), a symptom of Type 1 Narcolepsy (a neurological sleep disorder)....
Monday 6 March - Thursday 9 March, 2023
Amy Flannery is the recipient of Critical Path First Nation Mini Bursary recipient. Amy will work with dancer Aroha Pehi to explore the creation of a new dance work, Sap (working title) with a research focus on tree sap, its uses and benefits, as well as exploring its...
Wednesday 1 March - Friday 31 March, 2023
Choreographer, Patricia Wood, and visual artist, Alex Karaconji, will spend the time in the Research Room exploring visual and embodied possibilities for the textual slippage, using hand drawn animations, diagrammatic sentencing, and Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis....
Monday 20 February - Friday 24 February, 2023
In February and March, Michelle St Anne works with Sue Jo Wright and a sound ensemble for a development which is a continuation of the research project - Live and Online Dance Intimacy in 2022. Sunday 19 March 2023, 4 - 6PM, at the Drill Hall THE TABLE TEST // Sharing...
Monday 6 February, 12am - Sunday 31 December, 2023 12am
In 2023 five artists/collaborations will take forward their independent research activities within Critical Path’s program with support from Create NSW, engaging as an at distance action research group, alongside First Nations Research Fellow Jo Clancy. Our five...
The Drill, 1C New Beach Rd,
Darling Point (Rushcutters Bay), Sydney