Past Programs

Dianne, Julie and Peter will work together to undertake the third and final stage of development into a research based radiophonic theatre creation entitled For Your Ears Only. It brings together the various building blocks of performance making and combines it with...

Partners: Immediations: Art and Event, Mini MoveMe Festival (STRUT Dance) Workshops open to choreographers/dancers. Expressions of interest due 10 Oct Improvisation raises many issues around the nature of choreography, performance and authorship. In the relationship...

Movement and Sound are sensational gestures. Sound moves through an invisible atmospheric ocean, waves shaped by the physics of noise and harmonious notes arrive to the ear sensed by the timpani of membrane to brain. Led by digital choreographer/performer, Hellen Sky,...

This research project is a continuation of work Rob has been developing over several years. Within the framework of an existing process, Rob will undertake a multilayered exploration of tone. This idea of tone is broad, referring to the tone of the body or a part of...

We were drenched in each other’s proximity... We covered the wall in written or drawn ideas, filled the space with sweat and tension and joy and dance, shook the ceiling with a live mic'd sound score (and at other times Beyonce) and powdered the room with flour in the...

Open to 15 Australian choreographers/dancers. EOIs due 18 Aug The focus of this workshop will be to explore the sense and depth of the present time. Rather than focus on technicalities, Eléonore will share her universe of research and exploration, which is the heart...

Drill Hall Space Grant OCT 14–17 & 20–26 “Only we humans make waste that nature can’t digest.” Charles Moore Sarah’s research project evolves from her fascination with waste: her desire to create orderly piles of it; her disconnection from where it ends up; the...

Open to 15 Australian choreographers/dancers. EOIs due 1 Sep Wayang in body machine is inspired by Javanese traditional ‘wayang’. This workshop will explore the traditional dance relationship between audience, ritual, and elements of traditional Javanese and Banyumas...

FUNDED BY Difusão e Intercâmbios Culturais 2013 - Secretaria de Estado de Cultura do Rio de Janeiro (SEC-RJ) and Prêmio FUNARTE Klauss Vianna 2013 - Fundação Nacional de Artes The research project Correspondances is based on the idea of sharing movement/choreographic...

Beyond the Training is an annual series of skills sharing and professional development workshops aimed at exploring beyond the technique of dance classes. The series supports the Responsive research program at Critical Path, and expands upon the regular...

A Contact Improvisation duet presents to an observer a recurrent set up: two dancers who are almost constantly ‘touching’ each other. Through this residency, Alejandro will seek to find processes for choreographing partnering dance using the movement language of...

JUL 14 – AUG 3 | AUG 25–31 MicroSleepDub wants to look for sounds that are too quiet or too small, too vague, too low, or too irritating, or that don’t match with what we see. By using the microphone as a microscope, MicroSleepDub wants to zoom in and amplify these...

For this research project Lisa aims to identify how and if disparate areas of her personal arts practice can be integrated, with an aim to establish an authentic and relevant expressive voice – one that incorporates these various disciplines to produce original and...

MAY 19–31 | NOV 3–22 Annalouise will undertake various strands of research related to two works: Self Portrait and Mother Tongue. Over the past decade, several works have emerged from a combination of choreographic research and the development of hybrid...

The Small, the Minute, the Minuscule: finding the dance in non-dance Lisa Maris McDonell with collaborator Robina Beard will explore and investigate the use of very small (yet not intentionally gestural) movement within a dance context. Having previously choreographed...

From Afar on a Hill is an audience-integrated performance reflecting upon the global issue of current and future immigration practices. Bianca Martin will be researching a new performance work about global immigration practices. With the support of a Fellowship from...

Behind the Zig Zag was a live performance about malfunction – technological, electrical and cellular – featuring the anthropomorphism of everyday objects and highlighting the familiar tendency to imbue our possessions with human traits. Together with collaborator...

2014 marks the second phase of this specially tailored mentorship program for Eric Avery and Henrietta Baird, two Sydney-based artists, at the beginning of their choreographic careers. The program seeks to provide opportunities for them to develop choreographic skills...

Partner: The Weather Exchange, an initiative of De Quincey Co. EOIs are invited from dancers interested in participating and collaborating Peter Fraser and Tess de Quincey: Mar 21–23 Martin del Amo: NOV 21–23 Building on previous laboratories between 2006 and 2013,...

In partnership with Dancehouse Open to 2 NSW choreographers/dancers. EOIs due 1 February Two places with honorariums will be provided for NSW choreographers. To apply, please submit an expression of interest outlining how the workshop relates to your current practice...

This eight-day laboratory at Bundanon enables choreographers Matt Cornell, Miranda Wheen, Joshua Thomson, and Kathryn Puie and her collaborators to work with performance dramaturg and cultural philosopher, Bojana Kunst, on developing their individual projects. In the...

MAR 3–7 | APR 7–14 Critical Path and the Creative Practice Lab at the School of the Arts and Media (SAM) at UNSW work in partnership to provide dance research residencies in the Io Myers Studioat UNSW. The Creative Practice Lab supports research and analysis in...

Partners : Dance Sites Network (DSN) - Critical Path, Dancehouse & STRUT Dance Associated public event: Bojana Kunst will be a guest critic at the DSN sharing at Critical Path on Monday 3 March, 4–7pm. Dance Sites is an innovative creative platform...

Beyond the Training is an annual series of skills sharing and professional development workshops aimed at exploring beyond the technique of dance classes. The series supports the Responsive research program at Critical Path, and expands upon the regular...

Theo will be in Australia developing Of Land and Tongue, a new double bill for unconventional spaces. His Tanja Liedtke fellowship commissioned solo will be created in collaboration with Rebecca Hilton through a residency at Lucy Guerin Inc, and he will be using the...

In this piece Orfee explores a collaboration with composer, Kim Myhr. Bringing together music, video and movement work, Orfee challenges the walls of the room by mapping a physical investigation of the relation between body, sound and space. Is it possible to pulsate...

Collaborator: Katherine Doube FEB 17–23 | MAR 4–9 | OCT 27 – NOV 2 Exploration of (dis)placement as a means of generating a movement vocabulary will be the overarching task of this residency. Based in understandings of human geography – that is, that people change...

Working with Regis Lansac, this research project will draw on video editing techniques, digital printing and projections to consider two themes: the diver and the fall. In Greek mythology the figure of the diver has always been connected to death. It is suggested that...