Past Programs

Brianna is fascinated in the idea of time as a construct - time itself a place permeable by interaction with sound, architecture and live action. She proposes to challenge her choreographic practice by utilising and interacting with new structures and technologies...

Inside and Outside: Workshop with Lucy Guerin 2-5pm ‘Contemporary performance has become increasingly about context and framing and I find this important and intriguing. But I am still fascinated by the imaginative, unfamiliar and random elements that surface during...

A development of Hannah’s personal research project, A Rational Intuition, applying the systematic principles present in Jean Spencer’s constructivist artwork to a method of her own physical theatre composition. Jean Spencer was an artist working in the late...

Ishmael will facilitate a practical session and conversation engaging Critical Path’s 2018 themes, archive, memory & prediction. The sessions will investigate the curatorial process behind ‘Lost and Found’ and the relationship to decolonizing cultural access to...

BY INVITATION Critical Path hosts Anna and senior female dance & choreography artists for an afternoon of tea and discussion. ANNA CY CHAN is the Head of Dance, Performing Arts of the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority/Hong Kong. She is responsible for...

We are offering 2 NSW artists a free place on American Dancer and Choreographer Ishmael Houston-Jones's workshop as well as the costs for the return flights to Melbourne. THEM is Ishmael Houston-Jones's seminal work examining intimacies and violence between men, made...

In this talking-exchanging lab, Eszter will be presenting and discussing some of her works from the ‘monument’ series; MONUMENT 0.5: The Valeska Gert Monument (2017), MONUMENT 0.4: Lores & Praxes (2017).  These works act as trigger points for further discussions...

Critical Path has sent 2 NSW artists to an intensive lab with Eszter Salamon. Replay is a choreographic lab with public outcome led by ESZTER SALAMON assisted by Boglàrka Börcsök In the history of dance, the communication between dancer and audience has fascinated a...

Angela will be continuing research and development of her new work Uncanny Valley, Girl by following/unravelling threads from research begun during her Culture Lab residency at Arts House in Melbourne last year. Uncanny Valley, Girl explores a feminist...

Bruno a performer and choreographer living in Zagreb, Croatia is in Australia across January and February, along with curator/producer Zvonimir Dobrovic (Croatia). www.brunoisakovic.org They are here to connect with and learn more about artists and curators here in...

Nick is interested in exploring how the DJ can use the turntables as a musical instrument to create a new conversation with the dancers rather than just playing records for them to dance to, to see how the dancer and DJ respond to each other when the ‘conversation’ is...

This week, a collaboration between Annalouise and Toby, is to kick-start a research project that will investigate how traditional dance forms (specifically Flamenco) and new technologies can meet; using responsive interactive environments designed by Toby. The...

Critical Path in partnership with Sydney Festival 2018 present Talking Dance, a series of conversations between the Festival artists exploring ideas in their performance works and broader practice. What does dance mean here and now to us? How does it place us, how...

Critical Path invites two local choreographic artists into a research residency to explore what it means to acknowledge Country. One of the 2 artists will be First Nations Australian. The artists will work in parallel. Focused on Rushcutters Bay the artists will...

Cathy Livermore (NZ) and Eric Avery (NSW) will start their first stage of collaboration focusing on intercultural spaces and new media explorations; a pulsating, animated cultural and technological confluence pushing the boundaries of cultures, technology and live...

Rhiannon will undertake an initial phase of research leading into the Housemate Residency (Dancehouse 2018) to deepen her understanding of the concepts of ‘stewardship’ and ‘sym-poiesis’. She will experiment with how these ideas might be applied to the development of...

International and intercultural exchange is a cornerstone of our work at Critical Path - part of our core vision to broaden the horizons of contemporary dance, and nurture new perspectives and collaborations for Australian dance practice. In line with this vision,...

Since 2008 Critical Path and UNSW School of Art and Media (SAM) & the Creative Practice Lab have joined forces to support individual artists with an annual program of practice-based research. This industry-academy partnership provides resources (including funding...