Past Programs

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,...

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...

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 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...

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, 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...

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...

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 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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

NORPA and Critical Path are working together across two years to create a development space that will explore and extend dance theatre practice in the Northern Rivers region. The partnership aims to create a space for opening up ideas and broadening skills at the...

“If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.” - Nikola Tesla All movement, sound, light and life itself begins with an energetic vibration, and extends the field of vibration beyond itself from moving cells to...

Lily Bones Explored structure and content for a new work for children.  Raynen O’Keefe - joined by Loc Nguyen Continued research around the processes and possibilities of revoke, decline and mechanical & material absorption as methods of identity production,...

Critical Path are partnering with PYT | Fairfield, to bring together five female and non-binary identifying peer artists working with choreography in Sydney, to engage with the company of PYT | Fairfield’s new project, Playlist. The selected five artists are Raynen...

Brianna is fascinated in the idea of time as a construct - time itself a place permeable by interaction with sound, architecture and live action. She proposes to challenge her choreographic practice by utilising and interacting with new structures and technologies...

Inside and Outside: Workshop with Lucy Guerin 2-5pm ‘Contemporary performance has become increasingly about context and framing and I find this important and intriguing. But I am still fascinated by the imaginative, unfamiliar and random elements that surface during...

A development of Hannah’s personal research project, A Rational Intuition, applying the systematic principles present in Jean Spencer’s constructivist artwork to a method of her own physical theatre composition. Jean Spencer was an artist working in the late...

Ishmael will facilitate a practical session and conversation engaging Critical Path’s 2018 themes, archive, memory & prediction. The sessions will investigate the curatorial process behind ‘Lost and Found’ and the relationship to decolonizing cultural access to...

BY INVITATION Critical Path hosts Anna and senior female dance & choreography artists for an afternoon of tea and discussion. ANNA CY CHAN is the Head of Dance, Performing Arts of the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority/Hong Kong. She is responsible for...

We are offering 2 NSW artists a free place on American Dancer and Choreographer Ishmael Houston-Jones's workshop as well as the costs for the return flights to Melbourne. THEM is Ishmael Houston-Jones's seminal work examining intimacies and violence between men, made...

In this talking-exchanging lab, Eszter will be presenting and discussing some of her works from the ‘monument’ series; MONUMENT 0.5: The Valeska Gert Monument (2017), MONUMENT 0.4: Lores & Praxes (2017).  These works act as trigger points for further discussions...