Past Programs

Program

Research Development Lab

Research Development Lab

Monday 8 May - Friday 12 May, 2017

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,...

WORKSHOP

WORKSHOP

Monday 1 May - Wednesday 3 May, 2017

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...

Research Room and Space Residency

Research Room and Space Residency

Friday 28 April - Tuesday 25 April, 2017

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.

Responsive Research Residency

Responsive Research Residency

Sunday 16 April - Sunday 30 April, 2017

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,...

Open Studio: August

Open Studio: August

Thursday 13 April - Monday 17 April, 2017

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...

Open Studio: April

Open Studio: April

Thursday 13 April - Monday 17 April, 2017

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...

Research Room Residency

Research Room Residency

Saturday 1 April - Sunday 9 April, 2017

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...

Intensive Research

Intensive Research

Monday 13 March - Thursday 16 March, 2017

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...

Research Residency: DIRt

Monday 6 March - Saturday 11 March, 2017

Rosalind Crisp will spend a week working with Peter Fraser, Vic McEwan and Andrew Morrish continuing to share practice and explore similar issues on the ongoing project DIRt. The main 'topic' is around dance in the anthropocene. Our responsibility for the ongoing...

WORKSHOP: Body Sculpting

WORKSHOP: Body Sculpting

Saturday 4 March, 1pm - Saturday 4 March, 2017 4pm

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...

FIRST RUN

FIRST RUN

Sunday 26 February - Sunday 3 September, 2017

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...

PRACTICE DEVELOPMENT LAB

PRACTICE DEVELOPMENT LAB

Wednesday 22 February - Thursday 2 March, 2017

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...

International Research Residency

International Research Residency

Monday 20 February - Saturday 18 March, 2017

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,...

RESIDENCY 2017

RESIDENCY 2017

Saturday 4 February - Sunday 19 February, 2017

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...

Research Room and Space Residency

Research Room and Space Residency

Monday 30 January - Sunday 12 February, 2017

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...

Responsive Research Residency

Responsive Research Residency

Monday 30 January - Tuesday 28 February, 2017

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...

Performance Workshop: Tua o Te Arai – beyond the veil, after death

Performance Workshop: Tua o Te Arai – beyond the veil, after death

Monday 23 January - Friday 27 January, 2017

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...

Responsive Research Residency

Responsive Research Residency

Friday 13 January - Sunday 22 January, 2017

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...

Research Room Residency

Research Room Residency

Thursday 12 January - Saturday 21 January, 2017

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...

Residency Dance4

Residency Dance4

Monday 9 January - Saturday 4 February, 2017

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...

Talking Dance

Talking Dance

Sunday 8 January - Saturday 28 January, 2017

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...

RESEARCH ROOM RESIDENCY

RESEARCH ROOM RESIDENCY

Tuesday 27 December, 2016 - Wednesday 4 January, 2017

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...

Dance Sites Network

Dance Sites Network

Sunday 4 August, 2013 - Monday 4 December, 2017

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...

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