Past Programs

Open to 10 Australian choreographers/dancers. Honorarium provided. Expressions of interest due 1 September. Participants in this lab are invited to attend the SEAM Symposium, registration fee waived. Working in the studio and out in the local area, participants will...

Cultural production through collectives, cultural funding initiatives and free education in the 70’s and 80’s, created idealist environments for arts production. However, by the 90’s to the present day, these ideals have shifted increasingly towards institutionalised...

Open to 10 Australian choreographers/dancers. Honorarium provided. Expressions of interest due 1 September. Participants in this lab are invited to attend the SEAM Symposium, registration fee waived. During the workshop participants will work collectively and...

Dance Sites is a newly formalised network between long-time collaborators Critical Path, Dancehouse and STRUT dance. A first of its kind in Australia, Dance Sites is a mobility network stemming from the partners’ shared commitment to support the independent dance...

Open to 15 Australian choreographers/dancers. Expressions of interest due 1 September. Associated event: Colette will be in residence at Critical Path from 14 to 27 October developing a new solo work where she will consider the agency of the non-human and the...

21 Sep - 6 Nov Research Period 1 2013 Henrietta Baird chosen to work with mentor Marilyn Miller.  Henrietta’s project involved travelling to her Kukuyalandji country, Wujal Wujal community to work with Kukuyalandji women to document her family stories, sharing her...

Appearing We begin with curiosity to move further toward something unknown… To go in close means forgetting convention, reputation, reasoning, hierarchies and self… risking incoherence, even madness. For it can happen that one gets too close and then the collaboration...

Cost per series: $70 Ausdance NSW members $90 Non members Open to 15 dance practitioners per series. An annual series of skills sharing and professional development workshops aimed at exploring beyond the technique of dance classes. The series supports the Responsive...

WHAT IS IT Long-time collaborators Critical Path (NSW), Dancehouse (VIC) and STRUT (WA) collectively formed the DANCE SITES NETWORK (DSN) in 2012. DANCE SITES is a unique mobility network stemming from the partners’ shared commitment to support the independent dance...

Critical Path and the CPL work in partnership to provide dance research residencies in the Io Myers Studio at UNSW. The CPL supports research and analysis in performance and cross-media practice in SAM and the residencies provide invaluable opportunities for academic...

1 July - 31 December Research Period 1 2013. In partnership with Marrugeku Eric Avery chose to work with mentor Vicki Van Hout.  He explored ways to use his Ngiyampaa language as the basis for developing dance movement.  Eric’s goal is to preserve and cultivate new...

A single channel, interactive video installation for one viewer, Three Angles creates a personalised, intimate and direct engagement between the performer on-screen and the viewer. The work aims to create an affective loop between the viewer and performer’s body,...

This workshop will introduce Myriam’s system of body training focussed on respiratory techniques and her use of digital scoring in composition. “When composing and writing my choreographic scores, I use abstract processes and data. I sit at my table and I write in a...

Since 2010 Paul has been collaborating with French/UK artist Paul Granjon on the Experimental Body Extension Manufacturing Unit, which premiered at the Campbelltown Arts Centre, Oct 2012. EBEMU is a project where ideas about physical body extensions are explored and...

Interactive performance engages technologies from Motion Capture (MoCAP) to video tracking, bio-sensors, to simple accelerometers. These may control or generate music and visual content for a performance. Such practices raise a number of fascinating issues, pertaining...

Jun, Jul, Dec An Australia Council Dance Board Fellow in 2012–2013, Sandra is engaged in the research and development of a series of installation works from the perspective of a choreographer. Using combinations of movement, video and sound, her work aims to explore...

Ghenoa’s research project centres on her desire to make her own imprint, challenging her very self and her songs, dances, language and culture, and asking: What cultural protocols are imbedded within her Torres Strait culture? Through this three-week residency...

13–19 May, 9–20 Dec This research is a reinvestigation of Meryl’s The Oracle through technology and builds on the questions raised in the original choreography: to explore those most human of conditions – the conflicting forces of nature and man, masculinity and...

Curators of Lucy Guerin Inc,’s First Run, Luke George and Brooke Stamp, will join Critical Path’s Artist Representative Latai Taumoepeau to present a Sydney edition of First Run: a platform for sharing new explorations in current practice that are rough, raw, full of...

In partnership with Ausdance NSW Cost per series: $70 Ausdance NSW members $90 Non members Open to 15 dance practitioners per series. An annual series of skills sharing and professional development workshops aimed at exploring beyond the technique of dance classes....

During this residency Nick and his collaborators will reimagine the ritual of the cypher, a foundational element of hip hop culture, in particular breaking (breakdance). A cypher occurs when dancers form a circle creating space in the centre for the dancers to perform...

This exchange brought together Nelly Benjamin, Julie Gray, Garry Lang, Rita Price, Ade Suharto, Latai Taumoepeau, Nick Power, Patrick Thaiday and Anandavalli all independent choreographers working with traditional or classical forms in contemporary practice. Kaal, I...

Mar, Apr, Aug In 2009, Deborah devised a distributed, dancing memorial for the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen protests, based on the steps of the man who held off the tanks after the protest was crushed by the Peoples Liberation Army. The choreography was developed...

18–24 Feb, 2–15 Sep Normally walking in parallel coordination is an awkward experience, the same arm as leg moving forward in a bizarre Frankenstein manner. But believe it or not, this is the basis for a Yolngu (Northern Territory indigenous) woman’s ‘balancing’ step,...

In partnership with The Weather Exchange, an initiative of De Quincey Co. Open to Australian choreographers/dancers. Expressions of interest for February lab due 31 January; for October lab due 1 September. Building on previous laboratories between 2006 and 2012,...

4–6 Feb, 11–13 Feb, 2–7 Apr, 2–8 Dec  Space Grant What would we defend to the death? How have we responded to the death of people who have been significant in our lives? How do we feel about our own death? Is it important? Are there any elements of reincarnation that...

Artists’ Salon: Raimund Hoghe January 6 The Drill Hall In partnership with Sydney Festival Critical Path Artist Representative Martin del Amo led an informal conversation with Raimund Hoghe. Hoghe talked about his piece in the Sydney Festival Sacre - The Rite of...

Jan, Feb While in residence Raghav, along with collaborators Jacqui Mills (multimedia) and Alli Sebastian Wolf (playwright), will develop further research into KumKum, a multidisciplinary project that explores ideas of lineage, ancestry and the meeting of memories....