Past Programs

Brianna Kell and Sarah Houbolt will work on a week-long development project, giving 2 Australian artists time and space to reflect, explore and question their practice and to test new ideas. Brianna is currently investigating ideas around the Woman: strength,...

Choreographer Jonathan Burrows leads a three day workshop, introducing some of the ideas behind the performances he and Matteo Fargion will present at Critical Path. The workshop is open to anyone interested in the performing arts, regardless of technical ability, and...

Cloé Fournier will have a Research Room and Space residency to spend time learning more about feminist and counter-feminist ideologies and consider how they relate to her use of the female form in her practice.

Caroline Garcia uses material drawn from US television’s In Living Color’s Fly Girls dance group to explore the idea of the choreographic interlude. Supported by Brian Fuata, Nat Randall and Latai Taumoepeau she will work as a solo performer playing with duration,...

Kimberley Hammerton is researching and choreographing 21 poems by the Austrian poet Ingeborg Bachmann and music of Hanz Werne Henze. Tracey Kay is performing her experience of chronic acute pain. Recently, she began researching teachers and students who are over 50...

Kristina Chan Kristina will be exploring ideas around rituals and transformation and how these intangible ideas might translate into a more physical form. Matt Cornell Matt will be further developing his exploration of cosmopolitan folk dance that he has been working...

Anna will be exploring ideas around her current project Breathing. “I am interested in breathing as a very simple action that links everybody. I am interested in the very intimate aspect of it. I am interested in the transcendental experience of deep breathing. I am...

During this intensive research residency József Trefeli and collaborating artist, Gábor Varga, will undertake research towards their next creation focusing on couple dances. Participants are: Carl Sciberras, Ryuichi Fujimura, Anja Mujic, Eliza Cooper and Fiona Gardner...

Body Sculpting Workshop - sharing the creative process of Takao Kawaguchi’s performance, About Kazuo Ohno. One of the legendary Butoh founders, Kazuo Ohno enchanted the world over with his dance. Where do his secrets lie? In this workshop, we will try to imitate the...

ReadyMade Works and Critical Path are excited to present FIRST RUN, a program for dance makers to present work in development. Calendar 26 Feb, 4-6pm -Critical Path 23 Apr, 4-6pm - ReadyMade Works 29 Jul, 4-6pm - Critical Path 3 Sept, 4-6pm - ReadyMade Works...

BLOG This facilitated development project gives 4 Australian artists time and space to reflect, explore and question their practice and to test new ideas, over 2 weeks, supported by Kate Marsh. Kate will be in Australia undertaking a 3 week residency with Critical...

During this 3 weeks intensive residency Kate Marsh and collaborating artist Welly O'Brien will undertake research exploring different models and needs in relationship to leadership in dance including a visit to Federal, Lismore and Canberra. Funded by Arts NSW,...

Sioned and her collaborating artist Reina Kimura (Japan) will invite the local community to participate in a development and presentation of Aomori Aomori in the Drill Hall she will also travel to Bathurst.  NSW artists shadowing her during the residency are Anna...

Margie Medlin, a media artist specializing in dance and the moving image is researching a new project Black & White that brings choreography together with scenography through the medium of film. The contrast of black and white will used to explore choreographic...

Ryuichi Fujimura and Kate Sherman jointly investigate three questions surrounding the concept of Wabi Sabi. 1. Can the concept of Wabi Sabi be a catalyst for choreography? 2. Can we extrapolate from a feeling or concept that is difficult to be described in words into...

Shrouded in mystery, the passage of the dead in Maori ancestral stories is relayed as a series of arduous tests to complete on their way to the spiritual homeland of Hawaiki. A spiritual hiatus takes place at Te Arai, a resting place for spirits, a site for talismans...

Adam Warburton is interested in researching how street dancers and vocalists can work together in different and interesting ways for performance. Working with WeiZen Ho and Kimberly Aviso, Adam will explore how the voice can be used by dancers and the different ways...

Traditional movement and contemporary dance artist Eko Supriyanto will spend time at the Research Room looking and concentrating on writing about his own practice and process. He will also meet with some Sydney artists as part of his research process. Eko is in Sydney...

Matt will spend a month with Dance4 at their new international Centre for Choreography as part of our ongoing residency exchange program with the UK. Residency exchange partner Dance4 is an internationally recognised centre for the development of extraordinary 21st...

Critical Path in partnership with Sydney Festival 2017 present Talking Dance, a series of conversations between the Festival artists exploring ideas in their performance works and broader practice. Sunday 8 January, 4.15pm, Carriageworks Talking Dance - Global...

American artist Emily Johnson will spend time at our Research Room looking at her ongoing work ‘Then a cunning voice and a night we spend gazing at starts’ , a multi-year project focused in equal measure on making quilts, performance, storytelling, song, and a night...

WHAT IS IT Long-time collaborators Critical Path (NSW), Dancehouse (VIC) and STRUT (WA) collectively formed the DANCE SITES NETWORK (DSN) in 2012. DANCE SITES is a unique mobility network stemming from the partners’ shared commitment to support the independent dance...