Past Programs

Program

Jade Dewi Tyas Tunggal 

Jade Dewi Tyas Tunggal 

2023 Critical Path Australia-Asia Research Fellowship

Monday 19 December, 2022 - Sunday 31 December, 2023

Jade Dewi is collaborating with artists Ria Soemardjo, Justin Shoulder, Mathew Stegh and dramaturg Rachel Swain, focusing on water ecologies and experimenting with intimate audience-performer relationships.  Embodying the fluid evolution of lifeforms from ocean to...

2023 Critical Path Research Fellowships

2023 Critical Path Research Fellowships

Amy Zhang, Geraldine Balcazar, Jade Dewi Tyas Tunggal and Jo Clancy

Monday 19 December, 2022 - Sunday 31 December, 2023

Critical Path delivers artist-led practice-based research and professional development across NSW. In 2023, Critical Path offered four Choreographic Research Fellowships under Critical Path’s four guiding ‘constellations’. Australia-Asia Digital First Nations Regional...

Amy Zhang

Amy Zhang

2023 Critical Path Digital Research Fellowship

Monday 19 December, 2022 - Sunday 31 December, 2023

The world of online dating and virtual AI companions has sparked Amy’s interest in how we connect in the digital space and questions about what role IRL (in real life) interactions plays in building intimacy. With collaborators William (Billy) Keohavong and Toshiya...

Jo Clancy

Jo Clancy

2023 Critical Path First Nations Research Fellowship

Monday 19 December, 2022 - Sunday 31 December, 2023

I have been looking for space and support to sit with Country, to be guided by the songs that come when I do this, the movement and dance that resonates through me during this practice, the conversations that follow with the Matriarchs who surround me and the sharing...

Geraldine Balcazar

Geraldine Balcazar

2023 Critical Path Regional Research Fellowship

Monday 19 December, 2022 - Sunday 31 December, 2023

Geraldine Balcazar is collaborating with Ira Ferris and Stella Chen to explore what a new relationship to time offers her practice and a different way to make work. They are asking, what shifts/transformations in the individual and social body could occur if we...

Articulating Practice – Sapphire Coast

Articulating Practice – Sapphire Coast

Saturday 19 November - Sunday 27 November, 2022

Critical Path is offering four artists a paid opportunity to attend a three-day development project from 20 - 22 November*, at Gunpowder Trading Post in Wolumla. Artists participating in the project will explore and share where they find themselves in their practice...

Raghav Handa

Raghav Handa

2022 Research Residency

Tuesday 1 November - Sunday 18 December, 2022

Laying foundations for a new work, in collaboration with Maharshi Raval and James Brown. This offering will be the last in the triptych of works exploring Power: it’s lust, it’s use and demise.  With collaborators Maharshi and James, Raghav Handa worked on devising...

Small Space Grants

Small Space Grants

Nicola Ford

Saturday 1 October - Wednesday 5 October, 2022

Critical Path offers small space grants to artists where The Drill Hall might be available for short periods of time.   Nicola Ford is a regionally based artist who will be spending 5 days in The Drill in December developing her choreographic work; "My goal is to...

Small Space Grants

Small Space Grants

Daniela Zambrano - Plonova Dance

Saturday 1 October - Wednesday 5 October, 2022

Critical Path offers small space grants to artists where The Drill Hall might be available for short periods of time.   REGRESS is a project that describes how Guillain-Barre Syndrome can forge many changes in a human’s lifestyle, such as giving up activities we...

Michelle St Anne RESEARCH – live and online dance intimacy

Michelle St Anne RESEARCH – live and online dance intimacy

Thursday 1 September - Sunday 4 December, 2022

Michelle St Anne’s practice interrogates collaboration and devising to re-write bodily and societal scripts. Her work exists at the intersection of social justice and artistic practice, drawing on the rich traditions in western and south Asian cannons to reveal the...

Physical Futures Digital Exchange Residency

Physical Futures Digital Exchange Residency

Monday 1 August - Friday 12 August, 2022

Physical Futures Digital Exchange Residency is a 2 week residency from 1st to 12th of August 2022 as part of the ongoing 2022-2024 TAIWAN AND AUSTRALIA CHOREOGRAPHY EXCHANGE PROGRAM in which invited artists from the previous Digital Enchantment Lab and Choreographic...

Space Grant Opportunities at The Drill

Space Grant Opportunities at The Drill

Thursday 28 July - Saturday 31 December, 2022

Critical Path offers small space grants to artists in need where The Drill Hall might be available for short periods of time.   Currently we have no Space Grant opportunities available.   Stay up to date, subscribe to our e-news, or follow us on socials,...

Small Space Grants

Small Space Grants

Gemma+Molly

Wednesday 6 July - Tuesday 12 July, 2022

Critical Path offers small space grants to artists in need where The Drill Hall might be available for short periods of time.   gemma+molly will spend 6 days in The Drill for their continued development of their new interactive dance performance LUSH....

Choreographic Expansion Lab

Choreographic Expansion Lab

Monday 27 June, 10am - Friday 1 July, 2022 8pm

  This one-week lab is catered towards digital artists who collaborate with dancers or who incorporate choreography in their work. It will support artists to expand their choreographic vocabulary and work more discerningly when leveraging dance in digital...

CALLING FOR APPLICATIONS Critical Path Research Fellowships 2023

CALLING FOR APPLICATIONS Critical Path Research Fellowships 2023

Friday 24 June - Friday 12 August, 2022

APPLICATIONS HAVE CLOSED 10AM, MONDAY 25 JULY 2022  Critical Path is offering 4 Choreographic Research Fellowships for early 2023. Each Fellowship offers up to 26 days of space in-kind at the Drill, in Sydney and $12,000 Artists with a choreographic practice are...

Digital Enchantment Lab

Digital Enchantment Lab

Monday 20 June, 10am - Saturday 25 June, 2022 8pm

This one-week lab supports dancers and choreographers who leverage digital affordances in their work to more deeply interrogate digital creation and experimentation within a choreographic agenda. It will also extend to discussions of data sovereignty, cultural...

Massaged by the Medium

Massaged by the Medium

Inventories of Affect

Wednesday 1 June, 2022 12am - Saturday 30 November, 2024 12am

Massaged by the Medium. Inventories of Affect. Is a book project by artists across UTC +7 through +12 working to make felt the embodied effects of our (chronic) digital condition. It asks, What is what we’re doing, doing back to us? Click here to download PDF public...

Small Space Grants

Small Space Grants

Juliet Saito

Sunday 29 May - Tuesday 31 May, 2022

Critical Path offers small space grants to artists in need where The Drill Hall might be available for short periods of time.   Juliet Saito was a recipient of a 3 day Small Space Grant in May. "The past cannot be seen as the future also cannot. Each reaches...

Small Space Grant

Small Space Grant

Sophia Ndaba

Tuesday 24 May - Saturday 28 May, 2022

Critical Path offers small space grants to artists in need where The Drill Hall might be available for short periods of time.   Sophia Ndaba was in The Drill for a five day Space grant in May for her choreographic research "I'm compelled to make dance work that...

Bundanon Regional Practitioner Gathering

Bundanon Regional Practitioner Gathering

Monday 18 April, 12am - Sunday 24 April, 2022 12am

In April Critical Path hosted a Regional Practitioner Gathering at Bundanon for artists who are all based in the Hunter Valley/Central Coast area of NSW. The residency-lab is part of a series of activities to nurture networks of regional practitioners and to provide...

Bundanon First Nations Lab

Bundanon First Nations Lab

Friday 1 April - Thursday 30 June, 2022

A First Nations focused lab with artists Henrietta Baird, Shana O’Brien, Josh Staines and Jasmin Sheppard. Amy Flannery could not attend due to Covid. Henrietta and Shana worked on their current projects while exploring shared concerns around relationship to the...

Ceguva 2.0

Ceguva 2.0

Friday 1 April - Saturday 31 December, 2022

Ceguva meaning ‘to breathe’ in Vosa Vakaviti is a collaborative & explorative digital residency led by Tokelauan Fijian storyteller, Emele Ugavule. In 2021 three expert Oceanic movers and choreographers were invited to be in conversation with emerging...

Taiwan and Australia Choreography Exchange Program

Taiwan and Australia Choreography Exchange Program

Monday 28 March - Wednesday 31 August, 2022

This artist callout has now closed and the lab series and artist exchange residency are unfolding. Please read more about the program and the inspiring people involved by heading over to our 2022 - 2024 Taiwan & Australia Choreography Exchange Program Page.  ...

Indigenous Dramaturgy in Dance

Indigenous Dramaturgy in Dance

Saturday 19 March - Saturday 31 December, 2022

“Dramaturgy in First Nations Contemporary dance can be a good thing. IF WE SET THE AGENDA”. (excerpt Raymond D. Blanco opening remarks) An initiative to interrogate Indigenous Dramaturgy in Dance  is being  hosted by Critical Path and supported by First Nations...

MARCH DANCE: BODIES OF KNOWLEDGE SPACE GRANTS AND BURSARIES

MARCH DANCE: BODIES OF KNOWLEDGE SPACE GRANTS AND BURSARIES

Wednesday 2 February, 2022 - Sunday 7 February, 2021

As part of our March Dance program, Critical Path has offered the following Space Grants and Bursaries to artists to contribute to the 2022 festival curation strand BODIES OF KNOWLEDGE   Space Grant Recipients 7 to 10 March - Sarah Aiken Drawing on the physical...

Small Space Grants

Small Space Grants

Lexy Panetta

Tuesday 1 February - Saturday 5 February, 2022

Critical Path offers small space grants to artists in need where The Drill Hall might be available for short periods of time.   Alexandria (Lexy) Panetta is one of the recipients of Critical Path’s February Space Residency. Lexy Panetta is a Sydney based dancer,...

Small Space Grants

Small Space Grants

Sue Healey

Tuesday 1 February - Sunday 6 February, 2022

Critical Path offers small space grants to artists in need where The Drill Hall might be available for short periods of time.   In February, Sue Healey will spend six days at The Drill Hall as part of the Space Residency. Sue is a choreographer, filmmaker, and...

Small Space Grants

Small Space Grants

Azzam Mohamed

Thursday 13 January - Monday 17 January, 2022

Critical Path offers small space grants to artists in need where The Drill Hall might be available for short periods of time.   Azzam Mohamed received a 5-day space grant at The Drill Hall in January. Dancer, performer and educator Azzam Mohamed undertook a...

A Strange Place

A Strange Place

Elysa Wendi and Rhiannon Newton

Saturday 1 January - Saturday 31 December, 2022

A Strange Place describes Elysa Wendi and Rhiannon Newton's collaboration that has evolved since they first met in Campbelltown in 2018. Their collaboration is grounded in conversation, which is understood as a kind of choreography that materially connects their...

Rosalind Crisp and Lizzie Thomson

Rosalind Crisp and Lizzie Thomson

Saturday 1 January - Sunday 24 July, 2022

Rosalind Crisp and Lizzie Thomson will be completing their two week residency with Critical Path in July. Lizzie will be in person at The Drill and Ros will be joining on-line. Rosalind Crisp and Lizzie Thomson started dancing together in Omeo Dance studio, Newtown,...

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