Past Programs

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...

Critical Path has sent 2 NSW artists to an intensive lab with Eszter Salamon. Replay is a choreographic lab with public outcome led by ESZTER SALAMON assisted by Boglàrka Börcsök In the history of dance, the communication between dancer and audience has fascinated a...

Angela will be continuing research and development of her new work Uncanny Valley, Girl by following/unravelling threads from research begun during her Culture Lab residency at Arts House in Melbourne last year. Uncanny Valley, Girl explores a feminist...

Bruno a performer and choreographer living in Zagreb, Croatia is in Australia across January and February, along with curator/producer Zvonimir Dobrovic (Croatia). www.brunoisakovic.org They are here to connect with and learn more about artists and curators here in...

Nick is interested in exploring how the DJ can use the turntables as a musical instrument to create a new conversation with the dancers rather than just playing records for them to dance to, to see how the dancer and DJ respond to each other when the ‘conversation’ is...

This week, a collaboration between Annalouise and Toby, is to kick-start a research project that will investigate how traditional dance forms (specifically Flamenco) and new technologies can meet; using responsive interactive environments designed by Toby. The...

Critical Path in partnership with Sydney Festival 2018 present Talking Dance, a series of conversations between the Festival artists exploring ideas in their performance works and broader practice. What does dance mean here and now to us? How does it place us, how...

Critical Path invites two local choreographic artists into a research residency to explore what it means to acknowledge Country. One of the 2 artists will be First Nations Australian. The artists will work in parallel. Focused on Rushcutters Bay the artists will...

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

Rhiannon will undertake an initial phase of research leading into the Housemate Residency (Dancehouse 2018) to deepen her understanding of the concepts of ‘stewardship’ and ‘sym-poiesis’. She will experiment with how these ideas might be applied to the development of...

For the next few weeks, Martin del Amo is at thr Research Room digging into his archival material as part of our Dancing City project. Archives should be places of transformation and translation, not just sites of accumulation, where bits of ephemera – notes, books,...

A platform designed to develop an inquiry outside of existing frameworks that categorize art and performance into specific genres. By starting a conversation with like-minded artists we begin to question our knowledge through sharing.  SHARING IS THE NEW ENCOUNTER....

Workshop for more experienced dancers and physical performers. In this high energy workshop Bill Shannon will teach rhythm, holding patterns and body positions invented over his life of dance and play on crutches. Workshop participants will be mentally and physically...

Our Associate Artist Adelina Larsson has taken up residency at the Drill exploring her practice and looking into new models of curating collaborative labs for professional artists. She is experimenting with alternative platforms, methodologies and vocabularies...

De Quincey Co is delighted to invite EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST from professional dancers, artists and wild cards to participate in this years Impro Exchange improvisation research lab, led by Frank van de Ven - Bodyweather Amsterdam. These labs are designed to explore...

Philippe Blanchard (UK/FR/SW) born in France as a choreographer he has created independent and commissioned performances at the forefront of Swedish contemporary dance and the European dance companies for nearly twenty years. His works develop into installation-like...

Our second residency at Mirramu this year will be with I-Chin Lin (Taiwan) and Lisa Maris McDonell (NSW). For two weeks, the artists will work alongside each other sharing the residency space, engage with each other, with local artists and with the broader community...

Saturday 4 & Sunday 5 November, and Saturday 11 & Sunday 12 November, The Drill Hall An intensive workshop facilitated by world-renowned multidisciplinary artist Bill Shannon for artists with physical disability.  Bill invites participants to explore their...

Choreographer and performance artist Geumhyung Jeong (South Korea) is back at The Drill to run 2 week development laboratories. In her work, she constantly negotiates the relationship between the human body and the things surrounding it. Through intense, risky...

Kathryn Puie will work with Lux Eterna to explore the frame work of her own process of developing site-specific choreographic material; enquiring into the methods and approaches she takes consciously and instinctively into her creative response to working with a site....