Past Programs

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...

Pepa Ubera is a freelance dance artist based in London whose choreographic practice expands into curatorial projects and the use of video in performance. Her work challenges social structures, questioning how the body behaves in the current context, mediating real...

Critical Path and Strange Attractor in partnership with Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences present CHOREOGRAPHIC HACK LAB, a one-week laboratory that brings together city-based practitioners to look at and be informed by new synthesis between the disciplines. We...

Ivey Wawn will be participating in a week of Research at Critical Path 14 - 18 January. Ivey  is an independent artist working with the logics of choreography and dance to make performance for a range of contexts. Her interests circulate around care (as a radical...

What challenges do senior female choreographers face? This conversation between choreographic artists aims to celebrate older women working in dance and introduce audiences to the process, practice and achievements of artists, encouraging different ways of looking at...

Collaborative Research Residency Skye Reynolds and Khamlane Halsackda will spend from Monday – Friday 17 - 21 December in the Drill Hall. During this residency, artists Skye Reynolds and Khamlane Halsackda will begin to develop a creative methodology for their new...

Angela Goh & Ivey Wawn 10 - 21 December 2018, Tanzhaus, Zurich Angela Goh & Ivey Wawn will be travelling to Switzerland in December to participate in a two week residency at Tanzhaus Zurich as part of the Swiss-Australian Exchange program in partnership with...

Another opportunity to study and work with Vangelis Legakis on his philosophy and practice Embodied Unity - an integration of Dance Styles, Chi Gong and energy work. Vangelis Legakis will offer his approach in Contact Improvisation what is to dance Contact Beyond...

Vangelis Legakis with Critical Path present ‘UNITY SPACE AiR’, a performance by Artist Choreographers Romain Hassanin, Jaala Jensen, Adrina Petrosian and Sophie Gargan. This performance is part of a month long research and development project. Come and enjoy a...

Angela Goh will be in residence at Dance Nucleus in Singapore 1 - 7 December 2018. Dance Nucleus is a space for practice-based research, creative development and knowledge production for independent dance in Singapore. They foster a culture of critical discourse,...

NORPA (Northern Rivers Performing Arts) and Critical Path have teamed up with Belloo Creative to bring Idiot Savant (Japan) to the Northern Rivers for the next INFORM workshop-lab. The INFORM partnership see NORPA and Critical Path work together across two years to...

Sydney based artist Charemaine Seet will be participating in a week long residency at Catapult Dance in Newcastle this coming November. Charemaine is a dancer, choreographer and movement educator with a career spanning four continents. Her contemporary dance practice...