Program
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
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
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
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...
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