Program
Monday 12 January, 2026 - Monday 31 March, 2025
CHLOE CHIGNELL SUN CUT: a lover's dictionary SUN CUT: a lover’s dictionary is a lexicon of 366 gestures that attempts to embody the 366 entries in Lesbian Peoples: Materials for a Dictionary written by Monique Wittig and Sandie Zeig (1979). In an act of speculative...
Tuesday 12 August, 10am - Monday 1 September, 2025 11pm
Expressions of Interest for side.step are now open! Independent choreographers and dancers are invited to apply for side.step, a new initiative by artist Ella Watson-Heath supporting choreographic work through the provision of 20 hours of free studio space and an...
Friday 6 June - Monday 9 June, 2025
Remy Rochester and Angus Onley Critical Path is supporting Remy Rochester and Angus Onley for the development of their duet work Please…continue? through rehearsal space at the Drill Hall and cash bursary in partnership with Catapult Dance Choreographic Hub for their...
![EOI: RECHARGE Space Grants, Research Room, Critical Practice [Semester 2, 2025]](https://criticalpath.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Untitled-1920-x-1080-px-1-2-427x267.jpg)
Monday 7 April, 10am - Sunday 27 April, 2025 11pm
Critical Path invites you to apply for a RECHARGE Space Grant, Critical Practice and Research Room Residency in Semester 2, 2025. Our second semester call out is now open for independent choreographers and dancers to experiment with ideas, undertake focused research...
Friday 31 January - Friday 31 January, 2025
Join contact improvisation pioneer Nita Little for 3 weeks of workshops at The Drill Hall and MARCS from 13 - 31 January in 2025. ... Nita Little investigates embodied attention and creative relational practices within movement, particularly in Contact Improvisation...
Monday 13 January - Monday 31 March, 2025
Announcing our Space Grant recipients for January-June 2025 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 recipients. We are excited to...
Monday 13 January - Monday 31 March, 2025
Announcing our Research Room recipients for January-March 2025 Research Room Residencies give artists an opportunity to use the Research Room without any predetermined outcomes. Critical Path waives the venue hire fees for the room for successful recipients. We are...
Monday 13 January - Monday 31 March, 2025
Announcing our RECHARGE Space Grant recipients for June-August 2025 RECHARGE Space Grants give artists an opportunity to use The Drill Hall without any predetermined outcomes. We are excited to announce our recipients: Eric Avery, Nasim Patel, Sue Healey, Sabrina...
Monday 13 January - Monday 31 March, 2025
Announcing our Research Room recipients for June–December 2025 Research Room Residencies give artists an opportunity to use the Research Room without any predetermined outcomes. We are excited to announce our recipients for June to December 2025: Annalouise Paul,...
![QUICK RESPONSE SPACE GRANTS [DEC 2024]](https://criticalpath.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/MaggZ_NamChops-427x267.jpg)
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...
![EOI: Space, Research, Workshops [TERM 1, 2025]](https://criticalpath.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/20240417_Two-Bodies-One-Mind-Workshop_Credit_Katje-Ford-212-scaled-1-427x267.jpg)
Tuesday 3 December, 2024 12am - Sunday 12 January, 2025 12am
Critical Path invites independent choreographers and dancers to explore ideas, undertake focused research and lead evening workshops in The Drill Hall from February to June 2025. ... You are invited to build your own residency by combining up to 3 programs: Space...
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...
![QUICK RESPONSE SPACE GRANTS [NOV 2024]](https://criticalpath.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Photo2-427x267.jpg)
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...
![CRITICAL PRACTICE [OCT – DEC 2024]](https://criticalpath.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/PhotoCredit_JuanSalazar_COSMOGRAPHIES-2-e1728874178602-427x267.jpg)
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...
![EOI: QUICK RESPONSE SPACE GRANTS [NOV 2024]](https://criticalpath.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/James-Hazel-and-Kristina-Chan.-2023-Regional-Fellowship.-Photo-by-Ira-Ferris-427x267.jpg)
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...
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Darling Point (Rushcutters Bay), Sydney