Past Programs

Collaborative Research Residency Skye Reynolds and Khamlane Halsackda will spend from Monday – Friday 17 - 21 December in the Drill Hall. During this residency, artists Skye Reynolds and Khamlane Halsackda will begin to develop a creative methodology for their new...

Angela Goh & Ivey Wawn 10 - 21 December 2018, Tanzhaus, Zurich Angela Goh & Ivey Wawn will be travelling to Switzerland in December to participate in a two week residency at Tanzhaus Zurich as part of the Swiss-Australian Exchange program in partnership with...

Another opportunity to study and work with Vangelis Legakis on his philosophy and practice Embodied Unity - an integration of Dance Styles, Chi Gong and energy work. Vangelis Legakis will offer his approach in Contact Improvisation what is to dance Contact Beyond...

Vangelis Legakis with Critical Path present ‘UNITY SPACE AiR’, a performance by Artist Choreographers Romain Hassanin, Jaala Jensen, Adrina Petrosian and Sophie Gargan. This performance is part of a month long research and development project. Come and enjoy a...

Angela Goh will be in residence at Dance Nucleus in Singapore 1 - 7 December 2018. Dance Nucleus is a space for practice-based research, creative development and knowledge production for independent dance in Singapore. They foster a culture of critical discourse,...

NORPA (Northern Rivers Performing Arts) and Critical Path have teamed up with Belloo Creative to bring Idiot Savant (Japan) to the Northern Rivers for the next INFORM workshop-lab. The INFORM partnership see NORPA and Critical Path work together across two years to...

Sydney based artist Charemaine Seet will be participating in a week long residency at Catapult Dance in Newcastle this coming November. Charemaine is a dancer, choreographer and movement educator with a career spanning four continents. Her contemporary dance practice...

Our Associate Artist Adelina Larsson will be at The Drill in September  developing her research project Carmen et Error. As part of her research, Adelina is running a 3-day free workshop together with Andrew Morrish and Nate Gilkes which will focus on improvisation,...

Image: Rosslyn Wythes Critical Path’s Central West Regional Practice Lab 4 – 9 November 2018 Bathurst, Cowra and Orange   For this choreographic residency network project, that will connect artists working in dance & choreography to the Central West NSW...

Su WenChi & Adelina Larsson will be in residence at Mirramu Creative Arts Centre from October 29 - November 9 in partnership with Critical Path. Mirramu and Critical Path are partnering to offer a two-year program to support the development of connections between...

First Run is back this October at Critical Path. First Run is a supportive platform for artists to share ideas and work at any stage of development and to engage with audience in a facilitated discussion. Local performer, choreographer and filmmaker, Emma Harrison and...

We are our inheritance. We are our perspectives. We are our imagination. We are bearers of time and relationship. We come into being in the space in-between. We are because of each other. This research involves entering a creative mist. Within that mist are thresholds...

Mirramu, BlakDance and Critical Path are in their second year of partnerships engaging First Nations Australian Artists in a week long residency. The 2018 residency will take place from October 1 - 6 with artists Carly Sheppard, Eric Avery, Katie Lesley, Joel Bray and...

Rosalind Crisp is back at The Drill working with collaborators Vic McEwan, Peter Fraser and Andrew Morrish, sharing practice and exploring the issues of their ongoing project DIRt (Dance In Regional disasTer zones) They will give a public seminar performance on Sun 30...

Following from their residency in April & May at Catapult’s Studio, artists Angeline Diaz, Alysha Fewster and Natasha Rogers will spend a week at the Drill Hall connecting with local artists and opening up dialogue around their current practice and new work...

Applications for the 2019 Critical Path Responsive Program Residencies are now closed. DEADLINE: 4PM, MONDAY 3 SEPTEMBER 2018 Information for applicants including application form, eligibility requirements and assessment criteria are available to download on the links...

Emily Johnson will be in residence at Critical Path from 3 -8 September. Emily Johnson is an artist who makes body-based work. A Bessie Award winning choreographer and Guggenheim Fellow in Choreography, she is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota and New York City....

While in residence at Critical Path Matthew will research the construction of a new choreographic diagram that will support the realization of his upcoming series of work Figures for Landscapes. Figures for landscapes is a series for seven dancers which migrates...

Rochelle Haley She'll work on movement research with graphic scores and fabric wearables with dancer and choreographer Angela Goh. They would be workshopping material for a performance and installation work that will be showing as part of the John Fries Award at UNSW...

Archives should be places of transformation and translation, not just sites of accumulation, where bits of ephemera – notes, books, diaries, photos, videos – gather dust. We've started our Year 2 of our Dancing Sydney project and Critical Path has invited artists...

Performance Instruments: Inhabiting Action, Posture and Materials This residency facilitates a collaborative conversation between video and performance artist, Lauren Brincat and performance-maker, Frances Barbe. It applies creative processes and training structures...

Dean Walsh Developed a new work with 6 collaborators called "Soften The Fuck Up" (working title), exploring the global turmoil we find ourselves in, economically, (in)humanely and environmentally. Also developed a new full-length solo "Remote Control", looking at...

Louise's recent work uses the symbolism and philosophy from alchemy as an overarching theme and includes an integrated visual description of the work, which describes that which cannot be seen. She is entering into a month of research in Australia spending time in...

Ivey and Mark will take this opportunity to begin building a foundation for collaborative practice. They will use their shared family history as material to consider how geopolitical forces impact human movement, by investigating the forgotten, lost and mistranslated...

Alan Schacher and WeiZen Ho kick start their current research project ‘Evaporative Body, Multiplying Body’ with collaborating artists Mike Leggett (experimental video & film) and Fausto Brusamolino (lighting design). For this residency they are interested to...

fLING Physical Theatre will be hosting UK dancer and choreographer Vicky Malin in Bega on 30 May to 1 June. Vicky and regional artist Gabriela Green, independent dance artist and Dance Development Officer at fLiNG, will work with company Artistic Directors Rob...

NORPA and Critical Path are working together across two years to create a development space that will explore and extend dance theatre practice in the Northern Rivers region. The partnership aims to create a space for opening up ideas and broadening skills at the...

“If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.” - Nikola Tesla All movement, sound, light and life itself begins with an energetic vibration, and extends the field of vibration beyond itself from moving cells to...

Lily Bones Explored structure and content for a new work for children.  Raynen O’Keefe - joined by Loc Nguyen Continued research around the processes and possibilities of revoke, decline and mechanical & material absorption as methods of identity production,...

Critical Path are partnering with PYT | Fairfield, to bring together five female and non-binary identifying peer artists working with choreography in Sydney, to engage with the company of PYT | Fairfield’s new project, Playlist. The selected five artists are Raynen...