Past Programs

Program

Research Residency

Research Residency

Monday 21 January - Sunday 10 March, 2019

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...

Collaboration with Strange Attractor

Collaboration with Strange Attractor

Sunday 20 January - Sunday 27 January, 2019

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...

Research Room

Research Room

Monday 14 January - Friday 18 January, 2019

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...

Women’s Work

Women’s Work

Monday 7 January - Monday 1 April, 2019

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...

Research Residency

Research Residency

Monday 17 December - Friday 21 December, 2018

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...

Tanzhaus Zurich Exchange Residency

Tanzhaus Zurich Exchange Residency

Monday 10 December - Friday 21 December, 2018

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...

WORKSHOP: EMBODIED UNITY

WORKSHOP: EMBODIED UNITY

Saturday 8 December - Sunday 9 December, 2018

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...

UNITY SPACE AiR

UNITY SPACE AiR

Saturday 1 December, 6pm - Saturday 1 December, 2018 7pm

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...

Dance Nucleus Residency

Dance Nucleus Residency

Saturday 1 December - Friday 7 December, 2018

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,...

Studio Exchange

Studio Exchange

Monday 19 November - Saturday 24 November, 2018

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...

Open Workshops in movement and vocals

Open Workshops in movement and vocals

Monday 12 November - Wednesday 14 November, 2018

Our Associate Artist Adelina Larsson will be at The Drill in September  developing her research project Carmen et Error. As part of her research, Adelina is running a 3-day free workshop together with Andrew Morrish and Nate Gilkes which will focus on improvisation,...

Central West NSW: REGIONAL PRACTICE LAB

Central West NSW: REGIONAL PRACTICE LAB

Sunday 4 November - Friday 9 November, 2018

Image: Rosslyn Wythes Critical Path’s Central West Regional Practice Lab 4 – 9 November 2018 Bathurst, Cowra and Orange   For this choreographic residency network project, that will connect artists working in dance & choreography to the Central West NSW...

Parallel Residency at Mirramu

Parallel Residency at Mirramu

Monday 29 October - Friday 9 November, 2018

Su WenChi & Adelina Larsson will be in residence at Mirramu Creative Arts Centre from October 29 - November 9 in partnership with Critical Path. Mirramu and Critical Path are partnering to offer a two-year program to support the development of connections between...

First Run

First Run

Sunday 14 October, 4pm - Sunday 14 October, 2018 5pm

First Run is back this October at Critical Path. First Run is a supportive platform for artists to share ideas and work at any stage of development and to engage with audience in a facilitated discussion. Local performer, choreographer and filmmaker, Emma Harrison and...

Responsive Research Residency

Responsive Research Residency

Sunday 7 October, 2018 - Saturday 30 March, 2019

We are our inheritance. We are our perspectives. We are our imagination. We are bearers of time and relationship. We come into being in the space in-between. We are because of each other. This research involves entering a creative mist. Within that mist are thresholds...

Mirramu Residency

Mirramu Residency

Monday 1 October - Saturday 6 October, 2018

Mirramu, BlakDance and Critical Path are in their second year of partnerships engaging First Nations Australian Artists in a week long residency. The 2018 residency will take place from October 1 - 6 with artists Carly Sheppard, Eric Avery, Katie Lesley, Joel Bray and...

DIRt: Residency

DIRt: Residency

Wednesday 26 September - Sunday 30 September, 2018

Rosalind Crisp is back at The Drill working with collaborators Vic McEwan, Peter Fraser and Andrew Morrish, sharing practice and exploring the issues of their ongoing project DIRt (Dance In Regional disasTer zones) They will give a public seminar performance on Sun 30...

Studio Exchange

Studio Exchange

Monday 10 September - Friday 14 September, 2018

Following from their residency in April & May at Catapult’s Studio, artists Angeline Diaz, Alysha Fewster and Natasha Rogers will spend a week at the Drill Hall connecting with local artists and opening up dialogue around their current practice and new work...

APPLICATIONS OPEN 2019

APPLICATIONS OPEN 2019

Monday 3 September - Monday 3 September, 2018

Applications for the 2019 Critical Path Responsive Program Residencies are now closed. DEADLINE: 4PM, MONDAY 3 SEPTEMBER 2018 Information for applicants including application form, eligibility requirements and assessment criteria are available to download on the links...

Research Residency

Research Residency

Monday 3 September - Saturday 8 September, 2018

Emily Johnson will be in residence at Critical Path from 3 -8 September. Emily Johnson is an artist who makes body-based work. A Bessie Award winning choreographer and Guggenheim Fellow in Choreography, she is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota and New York City....

Research Residency

Research Residency

Monday 20 August - Saturday 25 August, 2018

While in residence at Critical Path Matthew will research the construction of a new choreographic diagram that will support the realization of his upcoming series of work Figures for Landscapes. Figures for landscapes is a series for seven dancers which migrates...

OPEN STUDIO

OPEN STUDIO

Monday 6 August - Friday 10 August, 2018

Rochelle Haley She'll work on movement research with graphic scores and fabric wearables with dancer and choreographer Angela Goh. They would be workshopping material for a performance and installation work that will be showing as part of the John Fries Award at UNSW...

DANCING SYDNEY: MAPPING MOVEMENTS: PERFORMING HISTORIES

DANCING SYDNEY: MAPPING MOVEMENTS: PERFORMING HISTORIES

Thursday 26 July - Friday 14 December, 2018

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 2 of our Dancing Sydney project and Critical Path has invited artists...

RESIDENCY

RESIDENCY

Monday 9 July - Friday 13 July, 2018

Performance Instruments: Inhabiting Action, Posture and Materials This residency facilitates a collaborative conversation between video and performance artist, Lauren Brincat and performance-maker, Frances Barbe. It applies creative processes and training structures...

OPEN STUDIO

OPEN STUDIO

Monday 2 July - Saturday 7 July, 2018

Dean Walsh Developed a new work with 6 collaborators called "Soften The Fuck Up" (working title), exploring the global turmoil we find ourselves in, economically, (in)humanely and environmentally. Also developed a new full-length solo "Remote Control", looking at...

Critical Path and Tasdance Residency Partnership

Critical Path and Tasdance Residency Partnership

Wednesday 20 June - Friday 20 July, 2018

Louise's recent work uses the symbolism and philosophy from alchemy as an overarching theme and includes an integrated visual description of the work, which describes that which cannot be seen. She is entering into a month of research in Australia spending time in...

Responsive Research Residency

Responsive Research Residency

Monday 18 June - Friday 29 June, 2018

Ivey and Mark will take this opportunity to begin building a foundation for collaborative practice. They will use their shared family history as material to consider how geopolitical forces impact human movement, by investigating the forgotten, lost and mistranslated...

residency

residency

Monday 4 June - Friday 8 June, 2018

Alan Schacher and WeiZen Ho kick start their current research project ‘Evaporative Body, Multiplying Body’ with collaborating artists Mike Leggett (experimental video & film) and Fausto Brusamolino (lighting design). For this residency they are interested to...

Vicky Malin (UK) fLING partnership

Vicky Malin (UK) fLING partnership

Friday 1 June - Friday 1 June, 2018

fLING Physical Theatre will be hosting UK dancer and choreographer Vicky Malin in Bega on 30 May to 1 June. Vicky and regional artist Gabriela Green, independent dance artist and Dance Development Officer at fLiNG, will work with company Artistic Directors Rob...

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