Program
Friday 8 December, 2023 12am - Tuesday 31 December, 2024 12am
Victoria Hunt, Keila Terencio, Paul Walker have been selected as our 2024 Responsive Residents. VICTORIA HUNT (March, 2024) Victoria Hunt will use the residency to consider "how I am able to grow my capacities to hold space for others". "How do we feel our connection...
Thursday 7 December, 2023 12pm - Sunday 30 June, 2024 12am
Do you need a dedicated time and space to undertake a comprehensive research for your new choreographic project? Time to read, write, collate images, sounds, video footage. Time to go through and make sense of previously written notes and/or recorded materials....
Wednesday 8 November, 12am - Sunday 31 December, 2023 12am
The 15th edition of our bi-annual publication Critical Dialogues will focus on the editorial theme: 'TIME' We are calling for contributions from those engaged in dance (in whatever capacity) who are interested in reflecting on TIME as a choreographic tool, concept, or...
Tuesday 5 September, 2023 - Monday 2 September, 2024
APPLICATIONS CLOSE MIDNIGHT, MONDAY 16 OCTOBER 2023 Critical Path is offering 3 Responsive Residencies for 2024. NSW artists with a choreographic practice are invited to propose research projects that focus on explorations of new ideas or practice development without...
Tuesday 5 September, 2023 - Monday 2 December, 2024
In botany grafting is a horticultural practice in which a branch or bud of one plant is attached to the stem or a root of another plant so that a union is formed and the partners continue to grow. This October, we have invited three dance artists/teams to spend a week...
Thursday 3 August, 2023 - Monday 2 December, 2024
From mid August till mid November 2023, our RESEARCH ROOM will be a beehive of choreographic research with seven selected artists reflecting on their past practices and/or brainstorming and consolidating ideas for their future projects. Their areas of research cover:...
Thursday 29 June, 12pm - Sunday 31 December, 2023 12am
Do you need dedicated time and space to undertake a comprehensive research for your new choreographic project? Time to read, write, collate images, sounds, video footage. Time to go through and make sense of previously written notes and/or recorded materials....
Wednesday 14 June, 12am - Sunday 16 July, 2023 12am
Nikki is researching and thinking about a new performance work generated through embodied writing practices. The project straddles spoken word and extended vocal sound arising through breath and gesture, touching on the limits of perception and precarious transitional...
Wednesday 31 May, 2023 - Friday 31 May, 2024
We are delighted to open The Drill Hall in this cooler and darker winter months to a group of artists whose choreographic explorations range from cultural dancing roots to autumnal phase of life, from co-existence within the land, waterways and skies to...
Friday 28 April, 12am - Tuesday 16 May, 2023 12am
This winter season, we are offering a range of either one or two-week long residencies and invite you to come keep the space warm whilst exploring and experimenting with your choreographic ideas and research, without the pressure of an outcome. The residency is open...
Saturday 25 March - Sunday 26 February, 2023
A creative practice workshop with Naarm (Melbourne) based choreographer Zoë Bastin to develop a new project Celestial. We'll be working with scored improvisation, Creative Dance techniques and imagery from renaissance painting. Across the two days there will be...
Monday 20 March - Friday 31 March, 2023
Reina Takeuchi and Tom Kentta will work on the development of Peripheries, a collaboration between football freestylers, skaters and movers. Coming together to create shared movement, Peripheries explores the casual beauty of the suburbs, from pigeons, to youths...
Friday 17 March - Friday 17 March, 2023
Cultural organisations in NSW have joined forces to offer dance artists space to create, connect and share their practice once a month from March – December 2023. One Day For Day will see Bangarra, Bankstown Arts Centre, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Carriageworks,...
Monday 13 March - Thursday 16 March, 2023
Creative development of Weighted in Time. Dr Laura (Amara) Osweiler and collaborator Paul Osborne share Laura’s story of living with Cataplexy (when the body goes into REM stage but the mind is awake), a symptom of Type 1 Narcolepsy (a neurological sleep disorder)....
Monday 6 March - Thursday 9 March, 2023
Amy Flannery is the recipient of Critical Path First Nation Mini Bursary recipient. Amy will work with dancer Aroha Pehi to explore the creation of a new dance work, Sap (working title) with a research focus on tree sap, its uses and benefits, as well as exploring its...
Wednesday 1 March - Friday 31 March, 2023
Choreographer, Patricia Wood, and visual artist, Alex Karaconji, will spend the time in the Research Room exploring visual and embodied possibilities for the textual slippage, using hand drawn animations, diagrammatic sentencing, and Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis....
Monday 20 February - Friday 24 February, 2023
In February and March, Michelle St Anne works with Sue Jo Wright and a sound ensemble for a development which is a continuation of the research project - Live and Online Dance Intimacy in 2022. Sunday 19 March 2023, 4 - 6PM, at the Drill Hall THE TABLE TEST // Sharing...
Monday 6 February, 12am - Sunday 31 December, 2023 12am
In 2023 five artists/collaborations will take forward their independent research activities within Critical Path’s program with support from Create NSW, engaging as an at distance action research group, alongside First Nations Research Fellow Jo Clancy. Our five...
Monday 30 January - Sunday 31 December, 2023
Indigenous Dramaturgies in Dance Lab BLAK CAMP First Nations Practice Lab will support a group of young independent dance makers to explore, articulate and extend their practice and creative methodologies. The Blak Camp lab participants are Amy Flannery, Jye Uren,...
Monday 30 January, 12am - Monday 30 January, 2023 12am
Kristina Chan (Biripi Country) will work with composer, music researcher, founder of experimental arts publication ADSR Zine James Hazel, and with dancer, choreographer Sophia Ndaba. Kristina asks what does it mean to work with the more-than-human forces of a...
Monday 30 January, 12am - Saturday 30 December, 2023 12am
Nicole Schild (Central Coast & Dandenong Ranges) works with academic, musician and installation artist Louisa Magrics (Newcastle) In this project. Nicole will explore the new possibilities for choreographic methodology enabled by a ground-up interweaving of dance...
Monday 30 January - Saturday 30 December, 2023
Helene Markstein (Blue Mountains) performance maker and designer-scenographer, in collaboration with dance artists Anca Frankenhaeuser and puppeteer Fiona James. Helene has Parkinsons Disease and will be exploring this ‘authentic body movement as a way to write...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The Drill, 1C New Beach Rd,
Darling Point (Rushcutters Bay), Sydney