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Massaged by the Medium. Inventories of Affect. Is a book project by artists across UTC +7 through +12 working to make felt the embodied effects of our (chronic) digital condition. It asks, What is what we’re doing, doing back to us? Click here to download PDF public...
We are delighted to open The Drill Hall in this cooler and darker winter months to a group of artists whose choreographic explorations range from cultural dancing roots to autumnal phase of life, from co-existence within the land, waterways and skies to...
From mid August till mid November 2023, our RESEARCH ROOM will be a beehive of choreographic research with seven selected artists reflecting on their past practices and/or brainstorming and consolidating ideas for their future projects. Their areas of research cover:...
Since 2021, Critical Path has partnered with Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab (C-LAB) - 臺灣當代文化實驗場 - and the Cultural Division of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Sydney, Australia - to co-organise the 2022-2024 Taiwan and Australia Choreography and Technology...
Critical Path and FORM Dance Projects are excited to support the creative developments of Alex Craig, Speak Percussion and Azzam Mohamed and Lee-Anne Litton for IDEA'24. IDEA is a new Sydney based festival of creative ideas, workshops and performances delivered by...
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Announcing our Quick Response Space Grant recipients for November 2024. ... Quick Response Space Grants give artists an opportunity to use The Drill Hall without any predetermined outcomes. Critical Path waives the venue hire fees for The Drill Hall for successful...
This May, Critical Path’s First Nations curator Jasmin Sheppard, initiated a Truth Telling research residency, whereby a First Nations artist teamed up with Indigenous archive departments at both AIATSIS (National Indigenous archives) and Powerhouse Museum. ...
APPLICATIONS CLOSE MIDNIGHT, MONDAY 16 OCTOBER 2023 Critical Path is offering 3 Responsive Residencies for 2024. NSW artists with a choreographic practice are invited to propose research projects that focus on explorations of new ideas or practice development without...
In botany grafting is a horticultural practice in which a branch or bud of one plant is attached to the stem or a root of another plant so that a union is formed and the partners continue to grow. This October, we have invited three dance artists/teams to spend a week...
Do you need a dedicated time and space to undertake a comprehensive research for your new choreographic project? Time to read, write, collate images, sounds, video footage. Time to go through and make sense of previously written notes and/or recorded materials....
Morning Classes at the Drill with Luxembourg-based choreographer Jill Crovisier Monday 29 and Tuesday 30 January, 9.30-11am FREE with registration required. These classes are suitable for those with movement experience. You don’t necessarily need to be...
Dear Critical Path Community, We invite you to our 2024 Artist Picnic, held from 11am on Sunday 3 March at the Drill. The event is an opportunity for the community to come together, meet our team and 2024 resident artists who will share about their choreographic...
9 to 11 January: Noha Ramadan and Charlie Laban Trier worked on the project 'When ghosts dance, speculative gods respond'. 16 to 18 January: Carmen Yih, the recipient of Critical Path / Sharp Short Dance Space Grant (partnership with FORM Dance Projects’), developed...
The Spaces for Street Dance research and feasibility study was a year-long research on the diverse styles and cultures of Sydney’s street dance community, led by Dr Rachael Gunn (Macquarie University) and Feras Shaheen, in partnership with Critical Path and supported...
EOI closes 11:59pm (AEDT) Tuesday 2 April 2024 This application is for the Experimental Choreographic Residency (ECR), and the additional Experimental Choreographic LAB. Since 2016 Critical Path has been partnering with Performance Space to support the...
Saturday 23 March, 10am – 5pm The Drill Hall, The Drill, 1C New Beach Rd, Darling Point (Rushcutters Bay), Sydney REGISTER...
As part of the 2024 Critical Path Residency Program, Victoria is exploring the “prophetic body” and “transmorphic states”, deepening the relationship with Māori worldview and concepts such as Whakapapa (relational connectivity with all that is), Kaupapa (sacred...
As part of the 2024 Critical Path Responsive Residency Program, Keila is working on a research project “Choreography for Two Bodies One Mind” which investigates forms of choreography through the artform of puppetry. With choreographer Cloé Fournier and puppetry...
LEAH LANDAU 4 to 17 March; 29 April to 12 May Leah will transcribe the recordings from her project Conversations on Performance: A Digestion, where she hosts a dinner with four dancers to talk about personal experiences regarding performance. "As we eat, we are...
Wednesday 17 April, 6 – 8pm The Drill Hall, The Drill, 1C New Beach Rd, Darling Point (Rushcutters Bay), Sydney Our 2024 research resident Keila Terencio and her team...
Do you need a dedicated time and space to undertake a comprehensive research for your new choreographic project? Time to read, write, collate images, sounds, video footage. Time to go through and make sense of previously written notes and/or recorded materials....
Critical Path, with Performance Space, is thrilled to announce Jessie Rose McCall as the recipient of the 2024 Experimental Choreographic Residency. Based in Tāmaki Makaurau, New Zealand, Jessie is a pākehā movement artist whose choreographic practice searches for...
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Critical Path invites you to apply for a Quick Response Space Grant in The Drill Hall in November. ... These short Space Grants gives artists an opportunity to use The Drill Hall without any predetermined outcomes. Test an idea. Tune up the body. Play with...
Calling First Nations dance makers! Do you have a truth-telling project or idea which needs dedicated, supported research time, both in and out of the studio? Through partnering with AIATSIS and connecting you with the Collections Department - First Nations at...
"There is a deepening connection between First Nations artists in Australia, and across the seas with Aotearoa and Turtle Island. Our Peoples have a common coloniser, shared experience, and importantly, common unbreakable connections to our land and community....
Critical Path and FORM Dance Projects are excited to present two workshops with 2 international artists and a talk at The Drill Hall as a part of IDEA'24. IDEA is a new Sydney based festival of creative ideas, workshops and performances delivered by local and global...
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Critical Path, The Keir Foundation and Creative Australia invite you to celebrate a decade of the pivotal Keir Choreographic Award in Sydney on 17 August. --- 📆: 17 AUGUST 2024 🕔: 5PM - 10PM 📍: CRITICAL PATH RSVP HERE WHAT REMAINS is a celebratory program that...
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Critical Path, The Keir Foundation and Creative Australia invite you to celebrate a decade of the pivotal Keir Choreographic Award in Melbourne on 24 August. --- 📆: 24 AUGUST 2024 🕔: 5PM - 10PM 📍: ABBOTSFORD CONVENT RSVP HERE WHAT REMAINS is a celebratory program that...
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Critical Practice is a weekly series of evening workshops at The Drill Hall from 21 October to 18 December. ... Critical Practice gives artists the opportunity to share findings from their practice to peers and the wider community via an open workshop setting spanning...
Dance, at the intersection of visual art, installation and performance art. ... FROM THE ARTIST "MUDRASA is my own merging of two words mudra (gesture) and rasa (essence),that is the title of a three-day intensive dance residency at Critical Path. I will expand upon...
Critical Path is excited to announce Ella Havelka as our 2024 Truth Telling Research Resident. ... FROM THE ARTIST "My truth-telling project delves into the untold lineage of my maternal family, revealing a rich narrative of displacement and forced diasporas. While my...
Transforming an iconic heritage building through experimental choreography and visual arts Critical Path will transform the iconic, heritage building, The Drill Hall, with an experimental choreography and visual arts performance, UNVEILINGS / Wonder If by Katya...
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Announcing our Quick Response Space Grant recipient for December 2024 - MaggZ ... Quick Response Space Grants give artists an opportunity to use The Drill Hall without any predetermined outcomes. Critical Path waives the venue hire fees for The Drill Hall for...
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Critical Path invites independent choreographers and dancers to explore ideas, undertake focused research and lead evening workshops in The Drill Hall from February to June 2025. ... You are invited to build your own residency by combining up to 3 programs: Space...
BODY DATA LOOP 我記得住機器記住我記住的 BODY-DATA-LOOP is a live performance and installation resulting from 3 years of artistic exchanges between choreographic and technology artists in Australia and Taiwan. The project is working to interrogate the value of collaboration across...
The Drill, 1C New Beach Rd,
Darling Point (Rushcutters Bay), Sydney