Program
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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. ...
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...
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...
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,...
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