Program
Wednesday 23 June - Friday 31 December, 2021
23 July 2021 Lismore, NSW As an antidote to speed networking we are offering up to 30 practitioners the chance for a conversation with sector peers, advisors and leaders. The idea is not to network, not to sell or to buy, not to SPEED anything. A conversation amongst...
Monday 21 June - Wednesday 26 May, 2021
Critical Path in collaboration with BlakDance and in support of the BlakForm online Marketing program, will deliver a 6-day Lab intensive with 7 First Nations artists at the Drill Hall. Each of these artists come to the Lab with valuable insights to their own dance...
Tuesday 1 June - Wednesday 30 June, 2021
The Critical Path/Catapult ‘Studio Exchange’ aims to facilitate the movement of artists between the two organisations and between metropolitan Sydney and regional Newcastle. The visiting artists use this opportunity to invite connections with local artists and open up...
Monday 31 May - Friday 11 June, 2021
Weizen Ho will be in residence with Critical Path (space grant) for two weeks. “I use hair in different ways, as metaphor, to transform physical and social spaces, within which I access different entity-embodiment processes through movement, gesture and voice. From a...
Tuesday 18 May - Sunday 30 May, 2021
The Experimental Choreographic Residency (ECR) is presented by Critical Path and Performance Space. The ECR supports a 2-week period of research & creative development that explores experimental or interdisciplinary approaches to choreography. This year, the ECR...
Thursday 1 April - Friday 30 April, 2021
What is Open Tab? The Open Tab project is a sharing of methodology and insights from artists working at the nexus of choreography and digital - in the form of a wiki. "A wiki is a hypertext publication collaboratively edited and managed by its own audience directly...
Monday 1 March - Wednesday 31 March, 2021
1 – 31 March 2021 March Dance is a project of Independent Dance Alliance (IDA) a collaboration between Critical Path, DirtyFeet and ReadyMade Works who have joined forces with other companies and organisations to support artists’ participation in this month-long dance...
Friday 26 February - Friday 5 March, 2021
Critical Path offers the use of our Research Room to artists where it might be available. Diane Busuttil is in the Research Room in February and March 2021. Diane Busuttil is a physical performer who trained as a dancer at the University of Western Sydney,...
Thursday 25 February - Thursday 11 March, 2021
Dean Walsh has a two-week space residency at The Drill Hall leading up to his presentation of Context Is Everything in March Dance. Starting in 1990 with his first work, Homme Fatale, this “performed archive” functions as a fascinating tour guide of some of the more...
Monday 15 February - Friday 26 February, 2021
Critical Path and PYT Fairfield have partnered on a choreographic lab since 2018. The aim of the lab is to give Western Sydney dance artists and choreographers an opportunity to deepen their research into their own practice, while co-sharing the studio and exchange...
Tuesday 9 February - Saturday 13 February, 2021
Critical Path offers small space grants to artists in need where The Drill Hall might be available for short periods of time. Niv Rajendra was a recipient of a 5-day space grant at The Drill Hall in February. Niv is a spiritual and ecological artist working...
Friday 1 January - Friday 31 December, 2021
no man’s land ‘no man’s land’ is not situated between two opposing trenches – it is a space yet to be revealed. Is it a contested territory? This research aims to visit that which is deemed “too touchy”. Together, Vicki and Raghav will revisit past material; ‘Dance...
Friday 1 January - Friday 31 December, 2021
Collaborators David Huggins and Lauren Eiko investigate the fictions and non-fictions inherent in the ongoing discovery and construction of personal cultural identities, through a choreographic framework. Additional collaborators are ‘teacher’ Akashi-Suma, Ryuichi...
Friday 1 January, 12am - Friday 31 December, 2021 11pm
Belonging/s In a creative / cultural exchange with Preethi Athreya (Chennai), Amaara Raheem (Black Range) researched and built a museologically inspired ‘collection’ of gestures from handling objects sourced in each of their family homes. The research weaved these...
Friday 1 January, 12am - Friday 31 December, 2021 11pm
Alice Weber, during the two-week Research Residency at Critical Path in April, researched her ongoing project Dream Cellscapes. The residency then led into a three-week solo exhibition of the same name at Cement Fondu, in April and May, as part of the 'Textbook for...
Friday 1 January - Friday 31 December, 2021
Critical Path is supporting a number of artist/artist duos in 2021 in artist-led research residencies. These research projects are focusing on explorations of new ideas, process or practice development without a pre-determined product outcome. Our artists are Alice...
Friday 1 January, 12am - Friday 31 December, 2021 11pm
Critical Path has as part of its next four-year vision made the creation of a Digital Drill – a new ‘place’ where digital tools and online space can be harnessed for artistic research and development – a priority. In the last two years, Critical Path has worked to...
Friday 1 January, 12am - Friday 31 December, 2021 12am
Blakform is a platform for mid-career artists to further develop form and presentation opportunities for work. It is an intensive incubator and accelerator for artists and their producers. This year, BlakForm artist participants will spend one week at The Drill as a...
Friday 1 January - Friday 31 December, 2021
Critical Path has been building a number of relationships with regional organisations since 2016; BMEC Bathurst, Dance Integrated Australia, Mirramu Arts Centre, NORPA, Catapult and Cementa. We have continued our partnership with Bundanon Trust and engaged with a...
Friday 1 January - Friday 31 December, 2021
As one of Critical Path’s initiatives to build leadership capacity within the dance community we invite an independent choreographer, with experience of supporting other artists and initiating sector development projects to be the Associate Artist for up to two years....
Friday 1 January - Friday 31 December, 2021
The Experimental Choreographic Residency (ECR) is presented by Critical Path and Performance Space. The ECR supports a 3-week period of research & creative development that explores experimental or interdisciplinary approaches to choreography. In 2020, the ECR was...
Tuesday 1 December, 2020 - Sunday 28 February, 2021
The Experimental Choreographic Residency (ECR) is presented by Critical Path and Performance Space. The ECR supports a 3-week period of research and creative development that explores experimental or interdisciplinary approaches to choreography. Both organisations...
Monday 21 September - Friday 25 September, 2020
Is there a place for magic in contemporary dance? Critical Path, in partnership with Cementa, have invited a group of artists to explore this question in our upcoming ‘Mysteries’ Lab. The lab, held in Kandos from 21-25 September, will focus on sharing, research,...
Friday 11 September - Wednesday 28 October, 2020
Critical Path opened up The Drill for 5-day space residencies in September and October 2020 to artists needing urgent space for choreographic research and exploration. Natasha Sturgis: 11 - 15 September 2020 "I am currently in development creating an interdisciplinary...
Tuesday 8 September, 12am - Saturday 10 October, 2020 10am
APPLICATIONS EXTENDED: NOW CLOSING 10AM, THURSDAY 15 OCTOBER 2020 Critical Path is offering 4 funded artist-led research residencies in 2021. Artists with a choreographic practice are invited to propose research projects that focus on explorations of new ideas,...
Monday 24 August - Saturday 29 August, 2020
On the Cusp to the Future The latest iteration of On the Cusp will be going online internationally through collaborations with existing artist residencies and Atelier Pilar Güell, Barcelona, Spain from October 16 – 18 2020. There will be some material from On the Cusp...
Tuesday 11 August - Monday 31 August, 2020
In June, Critical Path and PYT Fairfield invited three Western Sydney artists Anna Kuroda, Eliam Royalness and Neda Taha to participate in WHY IS THIS CONTEMPORARY? lab facilitated by Martin del Amo. Through this lab artists examined and expanded their individual...
Tuesday 11 August - Thursday 31 December, 2020
During Anandavalli’s 2017 Dancing Sydney residency at Critical Path, Anandavalli and Martin del Amo had the idea to record the highlights of her career with an interview. Martin says: 'I have very fond memories of doing this interview with Anandavali. She is an...
Monday 10 August - Friday 14 August, 2020
As one of Critical Path’s initiatives to build leadership capacity within the dance community we invite an independent choreographer, with experience of supporting other artists and initiating sector development projects to be the Associate Artist for up to two years....
Thursday 9 July - Sunday 12 July, 2020
The theme invites participants to reflect on what has been disordered amidst the global crises and health emergencies. Adrianne Semmens, Gabriela Green, Matt Cornell, Mish Grigor, Patricia Wood, Raghav Handa, Rakini Devi, Reina Takeuchi and Taree Sansbury and Claire...
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