Past Programs

American artist Emily Johnson will spend time at our Research Room looking at her ongoing work ‘Then a cunning voice and a night we spend gazing at starts’ , a multi-year project focused in equal measure on making quilts, performance, storytelling, song, and a night...

As a follow up to the Dana Waranara convergence 2015, Eric Avery was selected from a shortlist of six indigenous artists for a residency supported by a creative producer Narelle Lewis. During the week in the Drill and one to one session, he will be working on his...

VIEW BODY OF IDEAS PHOTO ESSAY. Designed by Rhys Morris. Body of Ideas is a program that looks at notions of the body and how it is being reflected back in society, in art and in dance. In 2016 Body of Ideas will encapsulate a two-day provocation and FORUM: THE FUTURE...

Melbourne choreographer Antony Hamilton will introduce participants to improvisational tools and games for groups, as a way to experience and observe patterns, difference and similarity. This will be used to offer insights into the collective, the individual,...

Body As Material is a four-week development project for four artists taking place across 2016.  The project concentrates on solo practice and is intended to offer participants the opportunity to take some time to reflect on their own work, play, support the others...

“Doing Dancing” is a solo project by Rhiannon Newton that involves re-iterating acts of dancing and reading in relation to Gertrude Stein’s textual portrait of Isadora Duncan ‘Orta or One Dancing’. Imagined as durational ceremony for dance, ‘Doing Dancing’ deals with...

Choy Ka Fai will spend time at the Research Room investigating his new work Unbearable Darkness looking at the influence of the Butoh practice within contemporary performance. He's in Sydney to present his acclaimed work Softmachine at Liveworks Festival with...

Raghav will investigate the use of speed/pace in his practice using the Kathak principle of dynamic shift – extreme rapid motion punctuated by sudden periods of stillness. He will test his ability to control rapid movement and his patience to dissolve into nothing...

A space grant residency made available to independent choreographers from NSW to develop ideas previously proposed to Critical Path as a research project. The choreographers will work in an open studio format which encourages cross-fertilization of ideas and skills,...

This movement research workshop will experiment with how everyday movements, such as walking, sitting, and standing may be deformed and turned towards dancing through attending to choreographic problems and scores. We will move, and attend to each other’s movement,...

Matthew Day will spend two weeks at the Drill Hall exploring his ongoing research on his new work in progress Assemblage #1. This research is part of Days' housemate 2016 residency and it's a partnership between Dancehouse and Critical Path. Assemblage #1 deals with...

In this workshop (her only one in Australia), French choreographer Nacera Belaza opens up her movement style of repeated gestures and slow stretching of time, created with an acute sense of the listening body, as well as approach to, thinking and decision-making in...

Mistressclass : Recovering the body from the library Liz Aggiss (UK) Presented by Ausdance NSW and Critical Path UK choreographer Liz Aggiss will present her unique and distinctive research, process and choreographic practice over one day workshop in Sydney. This fast...

Melbourne-based performance artist Shian Law will engage with artists and non-artists to share his creative process around developing inter-subjectivities through performance. In this process, he draws heavily from movement therapy, somatic practices and choreographic...

The ongoing project of Joshua Thomson and Matt Cornell will soon be a show. In the lead up to their residency at Frankston Arts Centre, they will share the language and thinking being built around this project in an effort to be more rigorous with both. Attendance is...

A space grant residency made available to independent choreographers from NSW to develop ideas previously proposed to Critical Path as a research project. The choreographers will work in an open studio format which encourages cross-fertilization of ideas and skills,...

Curated by Diane Busuttil this participation only event is a chance to experiment with a performative idea in front of like-minded artists. Taking place in a large studio with an intimate setting, the aim of the event is to support the needs of each artist. The only...

In partnership with Accessible Arts. An intensive choreographic laboratory over six-days at the Drill Hall, Catalyst Dance participants will have the opportunity to engage with three leading dance practitioners as they undertake practice-based research. This process...

We're holding a Responsive Information Session covering all you need to know about our 2017 Residency program, advice on guidelines and how to apply. When: Sunday 31 July, 2.30pm Where: Green Room, The Drill Hall  The Responsive Residencies Program is a competitive,...

Finish choreographer Simo Kellokumpu will held a two day Contextual Choreography workshop focuses on the relations between a context and a choreography through the lens of movement. Movement with its manifold definitions, multisensory perception and experience forms...

Finish choreographer Simo Kellokumpu will spend time at our Research Room to continue looking at his ongoing research on the relations, interconnectedness and reciprocity of choreography and context. Simo Kellokumpu graduated from Theatre Academy of Finland’s MA...

Responding to her current interests to where dance and visual art can intersect, Emma proposes a new exploration of the place of dance around the interface with visual arts practice. Emma is a Sydney based dance artist working across a range of platforms as a dancer,...

LATE CALL STUDIO SPACE 4 - 10 JULY The Drill Hall Critical Path has responded to requests from two local artists to spend time in the studio before new projects next week. Anna Kuroda is developing her upcoming project in Japan ‘A dust’ and ‘Window’ which she will...

JULY OPEN STUDIO Lux Eterna will use the space to develop further Bodyweather based long durational performance for video; generating studio devised work based on the same elemental sensitivity as that created in the Dunes. A collaboration with Kirsten Packham and...

This workshop will explore the expression of methodologies in research and development. The Writing Dancing is a group of dance writers and makers who have been meeting in Sydney since 2010 to explore approaches to writing towards, about, around and alongside dancing....

We are delighted to host Pot Luck, an event for the dance community. If you want in, you are in! It is an invitation to support each other, and get excited about what it is that we share, or can share, and also to get excited about how we are different. It is not...

Ivey will use her time in the research room continuing thinking about reproduction and representation as disguises for the choreographer (or dancer), and as openings for the production of new material. She will be looking at the role of sensation in her practice and...

Rhiannon’s practice spans choreography, dancing, lecturing and a body of work that pursues relations between dance and repetition. Rhiannon plans to experiment with questions arising from her ongoing Bodied Assemblies practice. Bodied Assemblies, DirtyFeet's Out of...

Justin Shoulder mentored by Victoria Hunt Composer: Nick Wales ABOUT THIS RESIDENCY Justin Shoulder inhabits the Drill Hall for three weeks with mentor Victoria Hunt and composer Nick Wales. Continuing his investigation into becoming mythic avatars, Shoulder will...

Lizzie Thomson will spend time in the research room continuing to look at relationships between dancing and writing. She is interested in unpacking the role that words play in my practice, from generative scores to critical afterthoughts, and experimenting with how...