Past Programs

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Long Sentences – Rhiannon Newton Rhiannon Newton is in residency in the research room in June and July. Her research will give concentrated thought to her new work, 'Long Sentences', in preparation for a residency at HIAP in Helsinki from September to November. Long...

Jacob and Eddie’s digital residency has just started and is precisely two meetings in! The project looks at models for the making and presentation of socially engaged and responsible work. Jacob’s current research is looking into the United Nations climate change and...

Research Room: Joel Bray And Bernadette Lewis In this residency, Joey and Bernadette aim to reconnect with collaborators and make additions to their, “palette”, of which each factor encompasses four components; a task, a physical texture in the body, a proximal...

In her Responsive Residency, choreographer Sue Healey will delve into current states of play; in the microcosm of her kitchen, locally in Sydney and more globally in the current Trumpian Dystopia. This exploration through movement and image making will relate to five...

The ‘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 dialogue around their...

Research Room: Nick Power Nick Power will spend two weeks furthering his exploration of elements of hip hop culture and his interest in intercultural exchange. Nick Power is an Australian B*boy and Choreographer whose work draws on the rituals and culture of hip hop...

As part of the Experimental Choreographic Residency Ivey will undertake the development of In Perpetuity; a work in progress investigating the demands of capital on bodies, human and non-human. Ivey is interested in the way that wage labour fractures and abstracts...

The Body as Archive By employing the body as the receptacle of memory, choreographer and performance artist Rakini Devi will focus on key works that marked her journey in dance. The residency extends her concept of "tradition as transgression", that has been a...

The Central West Project was a choreographic residency and network program connecting artists working in dance and choreography to the Central West NSW region, with the intention of supporting more regional arts development. Following her participation in the 2018...

It is vital that artists to have time and space to consider their practice, to forge relationships and alliances and to take themselves out of everyday circumstances to create breathing space, and producers & programmers have those needs as well. It is in that...

As part of a research visit to Australia, Maria Nurmela and Kalle Ropponen (both artist from Finland) and Renae Shadler (AUS/GER) will take forward their project 'Susurrus' with a residency at Critical Path, 25 - 31 March, and research visits to Dance Massive...

Byström Källblad will be in residence at Critical Path from 25 March - 4 April. Artist Helena Byström and choreographer Anna Källblad share a desire to tell stories from and based in collaboration and exchange with specific places and its people. Byström is a visual...

Facilitated by Renata Commisso A monthly jam session for multi-disciplinary artists, founded in Montreal in 2017 by Quantum Collective Danse, returns for the second time to Sydney. This is a space where professional artists of all backgrounds - dancers, actors,...

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

As part of Critical Path’s ‘March Dance’ Open Studio, artists Jasmin Lee, Anca Frankenhaeuser, Jodie McNeilly, Nikki Heywood, Charmeine Seet and Katherine Cogill as well as various other March Dance artists will research, develop or otherwise work at the Drill on...

Building on Critical Path’s Choreo-Hack lab in January, participating artists Jodie McNeilly, Henrietta Baird and Sarah Pini undertake a further research week to take forward ideas and connections raised during the lab. Their explorations situate different...

Archives should be places of transformation and translation, not just sites of accumulation, where bits of ephemera – notes, books, diaries, photos, videos – gather dust. We've started our Year 3 of our Dancing Sydney project and Critical Path has invited artists...

DANCING SYDNEY ARCHIVE PROGRAM The Archive Project, supported by Dancing Sydney in collaboration with Critical Path, began with a sequence of events that included a group visit to the State Library of NSW where participants were given important information on the...

Amrita Hepi and Jahra ‘Rager’ Wasasala will spend a week in the Drill Hall 25 February – 1 March. Amrita Hepi is an award winning first nations choreographer and dancer from from Bundjulung (Aus) and Ngapuhi (NZ) territories. Her mission as an artist is to push the...