Program
Monday 6 July - Friday 10 July, 2020
During her time at the Drill Hall, Alice will develop her research around digital and long-distance intimacies, signification and scale. Through a variety of choreographic forms, from online dance class to public signage, Alice will explore how desire and the banal...
Friday 3 July, 12am - Friday 3 July, 2020 12am
MARTIN DEL AMO'S THOUGHTS ON HIS 2017 DANCING SYDNEY ARCHIVE PROJECT RESIDENCY SHARING During my 2017 Dancing Sydney residency at Critical Path, I became interested in the idea of ‘physically archiving’ previous work. For this purpose, I revisited a 15-minute solo, A...
Friday 3 July, 12am - Thursday 31 December, 2020 12am
The Dancing Sydney: Mapping Movements: Performing Histories is a skills development program for independent Sydney dance makers to explore best practice in archiving their processes for future audiences, and what a reflection on their archive might mean for their...
Monday 29 June - Sunday 5 July, 2020
Choreographer, performer, educator and movement researcher, Dean Walsh’s latest production, Infinite Item, is his largest scale work that focuses on intersections between art, environmental science, Climate Change, and also foregrounds this global pandemic as a moment...
Monday 22 June - Sunday 5 July, 2020
Choreographer, performer, educator and movement researcher, Dean Walsh’s latest production, Infinite Item, is his largest scale work focusing on environmental themes, since he began his research into this thematic base in 2007. This work has had several, quite...
Monday 15 June - Friday 19 June, 2020
15-19 June 2020 @The Drill Hall 22-26 June 2020 @ PYT Fairfield Critical Path in partnership with PYT Fairfield are delivering the second lab of their three-year project that explores contemporary dance practice in Western Sydney. This year’s ‘WHY IS THIS...
Friday 12 June - Sunday 14 June, 2020
Adam was at the Drill Hall for three days of research in June 2020. During this time, he worked on further developing some of the dance material derived from his exhibition at MoMA earlier in 2020. Image courtesy of the artist.
Monday 1 June - Tuesday 30 June, 2020
Callout for Contributions - by Alan Schacher For Critical Path’s Dance Archiving Project, rather than a map of trajectories of works I have made, I wish to unearth an even more fragile trace, that of the collective thoughts and unfinished sentences that pass amongst...
Sunday 31 May - Thursday 11 June, 2020
Choreographer Patricia Wood and composer Benedict Carey will work together, remotely, for a collective research, under the framework of Mimetic/Memetic Practice for their Critical Path Responsive Residency. Through a physical process of exchange, they will look...
Wednesday 20 May - Tuesday 30 June, 2020
Four Australia based artists Nikki Lam, Melissa Gilbert (Offerings), Frauke Huhn and Kate O’Boyle joined Priya Mistry in an exploratory week of grief, celebration, anger and beginnings. They met online for over 4 days. Central to their time together they explored “The...
Wednesday 20 May - Sunday 7 June, 2020
Matt Cornell will work at the Drill Hall to extend his Critical Path Responsive Research Residency. He will continue dancing with his collaborators as a process for thinking through liquidity as it impales fresh water and human bodies, financialising them into global...
Friday 15 May - Tuesday 19 May, 2020
Interdisciplinary researcher, anthropologist and choreographer Sarah Pini for her Critical Path Responsive Research Residency will work remotely with collaborators Jestin George, biolotechnologist and visual artist, and Melissa Ramos, visual artist and filmmaker....
Thursday 7 May - Sunday 11 October, 2020
Initiated and led by choreographer Martin del Amo, Talking Dance: Dance Ecologies centres around a series of conversations, designed to explore more deeply the way independent choreographers work within the Australian arts sector, and how Critical Path relates to that...
Thursday 7 May - Thursday 31 December, 2020
Rakini Devi in her online article discusses the activities undertaken during the Dancing Sydney archive process in 2018 and the Critical Path Responsive Residency Research in collaboration with video and sound artist Karl Ockelford that followed in 2019. Rakini says...
Monday 20 April - Thursday 23 April, 2020
whatsthebigmistry is Priya Mistry, multidisciplinary artist, socially engaged practitioner and creative producer. Priya’s work straddles performance, dance, live and visual art, working locally across the U.K and internationally. After receiving a DYCP (Developing...
Monday 9 March - Tuesday 10 March, 2020
A Conversation Between Coal As part of March Dance 2020, Jodie McNeilly-Renaudie will spend 2 days at The Drill undertaking a Critical Path Space Residency. Coal gets a bad rap in the history of human's exploiting it in our industrialist march of the past and economic...
Friday 28 February - Saturday 7 March, 2020
Sydney based choreographer and member of The Fondue Set, Jane McKernan will investigate how to continue as a mid-career middle-aged dance artist in Sydney after living in the UK for 4 years. Her research has several strands, the first being research into coming back...
Tuesday 18 February - Saturday 29 February, 2020
Space to Fail is an international residency ‘exchange’ that through its focus on dance-making processes sits in opposition to the sector’s priority of product / performance-making, by allowing time and space for artists to simply work without fear of failure. The...
Monday 17 February - Saturday 22 February, 2020
Rhiannon will continue her research into questions relating to making sense of, and with, the world. Following on from recent somatic practice studies she will explore how touch-based technologies, cybernetic models, biological storytelling and feeling-led knowledge...
Monday 17 February - Tuesday 24 March, 2020
Yolande Brown will collaborate with harpist, Mary Doumany to research the technical and physical possibilities between dancer and harp: the interplay of physical and aural resonance, and culture. Being a Bidjara woman, Yolande is drawn to not only researching her own...
Tuesday 28 January - Wednesday 12 February, 2020
Matt Cornell will spend two weeks in the Drill Hall working through choreography, music and writing to discover and deepen analogues between bodies of water and our human bodies. Exploring issues and ideas around the value and ways we measure value in the labour...
Tuesday 28 January - Friday 7 February, 2020
Patricia Wood will spend two weeks in the Research Room consolidating her recent embodied research in relation to transmission, temporality and Trisha Brown. Photo credit: Cleo Mees
Monday 13 January - Sunday 26 January, 2020
During her Space Residency, Noha will continue developing a long-term video, dance and textiles project which explores the phenomenological and philosophical themes of orientation, proximity, braiding, weaving and visibility/projection. Noha will use her time at the...
Monday 6 January - Sunday 12 January, 2020
Chloé Déchery spent a week in the Research Room developing one component from her new umbrella research performance project, “Première", that encompasses a solo performance piece, a film of interviews with senior female artists and a lecture-performance. During her...
Wednesday 1 January, 2020 - Friday 31 December, 2021
Rhiannon Newton was a recipient of Critical Path’s 2020 Responsive Program Residency. To wrap up her research as part of her Responsive Residency, Rhiannon will hold a 3-day lab at ReadyMade Works in April 2021. The invited artists working with Rhiannon in this lab...
Wednesday 1 January, 2020 - Friday 31 December, 2021
Charemaine Seet was a recipient of Critical Path’s 2020 Responsive Program Residency. For her Responsive Residency, dancer and choreographer Charemaine Seet was to travel to Singapore to study the movement vocabulary of Teochew Opera for her project #6 Daughter. She...
Monday 16 December - Sunday 22 December, 2019
figurescapes During a week-long research residency at Critical Path, Matthew will excavate the existing catalogue of choreographic scores, rehearsal notes, and archival records of Figures for Landscapes. Figures for Landscapes is an ongoing choreographic project which...
Thursday 5 December, 2019 - Thursday 31 December, 2020
Critical Path, in partnership with Delving into Dance, invited those engaged in dance (in whatever capacity) to share thoughts as to why dance matters now… Together we have commissioned texts for publication from Australian artists and writers. These diverse texts...
Sunday 1 December, 2019 - Thursday 30 April, 2020
The Dancing Sydney: Mapping Movements: Performing Histories project is a skills development program for independent Sydney dance makers to explore best practice in archiving their processes for future audiences. The project is held at the University of Sydney with...
Monday 25 November - Wednesday 4 December, 2019
Scotland based artist Luke Pell has worked for a number of years with artists who are on and in the edges of things, art forms, communities, experience. Luke’s practice as a maker re-maps, re-remembers and re-imagines people, places, politics, and communities through...
The Drill, 1C New Beach Rd,
Darling Point (Rushcutters Bay), Sydney