Program
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...
Wednesday 20 November - Friday 29 November, 2019
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 18 November - Saturday 30 November, 2019
For their Critical Path Responsive Residency, Kirk Page and Jade Dewi Tyas Tunggal will spend time at Northern Rivers Performing Arts (NORPA) and Critical Path to develop the choreography of movement and vocal duets for SMOKE*. Asking what is the pivotal role of smoke...
Monday 18 November - Sunday 24 November, 2019
Flamenco-contemporary dance practitioner and maker, Annalouise Paul, will spend a week in the Research Room and Drill Hall to reflect on her recent 6-week arts residency at Rimbun Dahan, Malaysia, supported by Asialink, and a 4-week working trip to India - Kerala,...
Monday 18 November - Saturday 30 November, 2019
Previous Body As Material and Interchange Festival artist Alison Plevey, is undertaking a residency at Bathurst Memorial Entertainment Centre to reflect on Move to Zero, a project she developed through Australian Dance Party (ACT) in 2018 encouraging zero emissions...
Saturday 2 November, 9am - Saturday 16 November, 2019 5pm
During his Critical Path Responsive Residency, choreographer Martin del Amo will conduct research into the choreographic potential of the trio form. His collaborators are dancers Kristina Chan, David Huggins and Miranda Wheen, as well as Justine Shih Pearson in the...
Saturday 21 September - Monday 23 September, 2019
5 First Nations Australian Artists will come to the Drill Hall in September to participate in a three-day development workshop. Together the group will explore and share where they find themselves in their practice now, their connections and responsibilities to...
Monday 16 September - Sunday 29 September, 2019
Critical Path has partnered with PYT | Fairfield to deliver a three year project that explores contemporary dance practice in Western Sydney and aims to make space for different movement practices in our culture to share and work together. In 2019 Victoria Hunt will...
Tuesday 3 September - Saturday 14 September, 2019
WeiZen Ho and Joshua Pether draw on stories, experiences and imagination on how ceremonies from traditional societies set up space as a way of accessing their sensitivities. Through using the concept of Transmission, they will investigate the body as a transmittable...
Monday 2 September - Friday 6 September, 2019
INFORM is a 2 year program partnership between NORPA and Critical Path which aims to explore and extend dance theatre practice in the Northern Rivers region, NSW. The program creates a space for opening up ideas and broadening skills at the intersection of dance and...
Friday 2 August, 12am - Thursday 5 September, 2019 4am
Applications for the Critical Path 2020 Responsive Program Residencies are now CLOSED. DEADLINE: 4PM, THURSDAY 5 SEPTEMBER 2019 Information for applicants including application form, eligibility requirements and assessment criteria are available to download on the...
Monday 1 July - Sunday 7 July, 2019
Kristina Chan, Donna Sgro (experimental fashion designer) and Clare Britton (visual artist and designer) will be researching the integration of the choreographed body and textiles. Developing visual and spatial outcomes that speak to environmental change, this...
The Drill, 1C New Beach Rd,
Darling Point (Rushcutters Bay), Sydney