Past Programs

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...

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...

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...

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....

Japanese artist Reina Kimura (currently based in Tokyo) returns to Critical Path to collaborate with Sydney-based Japanese artist Anna Kuroda, on a two week exploration of their shared understanding of their practice in relation to their understanding of Japanese...

Thomas is spending time in far north east NSW and also at NORPA to research his new project WOLLUMBIN WARNING. WOLLUMBIN WARNING is a project that is exploring the cultural, historical, spiritual and physical aspects that tell the story of the former volcano, the...

Justin is back at The Drill working on the final development of his new solo work Carrion to be presented by Performance Space, a World Premiere at Liveworks Festival. Justin's development has been supported by Critical Path and Performance Space. What does it mean to...

Intercultural Lab is targeted at artists who have applied for Critical Path’s responsive research residency in the last couple of years and are interested in investigating, exploring and questioning the relationships between different cultural dance forms. It will...

Artist Anthony Coxeter and Architect Sebastian Silva are back to explore the next stage of their research work.  Phantom Dwellings is a series of five choreographic/ architectural installations wherein five episodes in the late-life relationship between the poet...

Katina Olsen is the selected artist for our 2 week Residency for First Nations Australian artist at Mirramu. This is collaboration between Mirramu and Critical Path. Land / Astronomy and the human body: Australia / Poland collaboration. With this residency Katina will...

During her time in the research room, Rhiannon is reading, thinking, writing and working through some ideas that both continue and shift the recent processes and projects she has been engaged in. She has gathered some great texts, such as Donna Haraway's 'Staying with...

Carly is spending a week-long at The Drill as part of the Practice Development project to continuing exploring  further ideas on her project Crackers and Chase. This is a follow up to the Dana Waranara convergence in 2015, and is a partnership between Critical Path,...

Applications for the 2018 Responsive Program Residencies is now taking applications. DEADLINE: FRIDAY 1 SEPTEMBER 2017, 4PM Information for applicants including application form, eligibility requirements and assessment criteria are available to download on the links...

Critical Path is supporting Carly Sheppard to participate this July/August in Dancing Earth’s summer Dance Intensive Institute in New Mexico. Dancing Earth invites exceptional emerging or mid career Indigenous artists for intensive training, land dance and creative...

Lizzie Thomson will continue her investigation into relations between dance and words - unpacking the roles that words already play in her practice, as well as exploring ways in which words as an artistic medium can potentially open up new modes of choreographic...