2021
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:...
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...
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...
From 4 to 22 September 2023, a Kuku Yalanji choreographer Henrietta Baird will be in the Drill Hall to continue her Truth Telling residency and the development of Plant a Promise project which centres around land management and climate change from both scientific...
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...
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...
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...
Saturday 23 March, 10am – 5pm The Drill Hall, The Drill, 1C New Beach Rd, Darling Point (Rushcutters Bay), Sydney REGISTER...
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...
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 lead a weekly series of evening workshops at The Drill Hall from 14 October to 12 December for Critical Practice. ... Critical Practice gives artists the opportunity to share findings from their practice to peers and the wider community...
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....
On the back of her 2024 Responsive Residency at Critical Path, and as a continuation of her research process, Victoria Hunt will run a series of workshops, the first of which is under the theme: MANIPULATIONS: Wind + Tree The aim of this workshop series is to create a...
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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...
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...
Critical Path invites you for movement workshops, sharings and a Q&A over nibbles with our 2024 Responsive Residents - Paul Walker, Victoria Hunt & Keila Terencio. ... Our ARTIST PICNIC series gathers local residents and dance makers to enjoy sharings, a...
Critical Path invites you to a sharing of research results, reflections and practices with Paul Walker from their 2024 Responsive Residency project - ‘The Art of Slowing Down to Save Our Lives’. ... INVITATION "My research considers what the individual, collective and...
Critical Path invite you to an evening of dance, visual arts and chats with Dr. Rakini Devi for her residency project Mudrāsā মুদ্রাসা at The Drill Hall. ... Choreographer / conceptual artist: Rakini Devi Dancers: Vishnu Arunasalam, Amy Flannery During her intensive...
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...
The Drill, 1C New Beach Rd,
Darling Point (Rushcutters Bay), Sydney