Applications for the 2026 Experimental Choreographic Program are now open! 2026 PROGRAM DATES 2–14 March: Experimental Choreographic Residency 16–28 March: Experimental Choreographic Lab APPLICATION DATES 15 December 2025: Applications Open 14 January...
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2026 EXPERIMENTAL CHOREOGRAPHIC PROGRAM 2026 PROGRAM DATES 2–14 March: Experimental Choreographic Residency 16–28 March: Experimental Choreographic Lab APPLICATION DATES 9 December 2025: Online Information Session – Register Here 15 December 2025: Applications...
CRITICAL PRACTICE with Peter Banki
Grief and Pleasure as Research and Play Grief and Pleasure as Research and Play is a four-week Critical Practice series facilitated by Peter Banki. We often think of pleasure and grief as spontaneous states that arise in the body. Curiosity about pleasure is...
CRITICAL PRACTICE with Victoria Hunt
Performance Workshop Series
METAMORPHETIC FIRE: Decolonial Repatterning for Artists and Activists An intensive performance workshop series exploring creativity as a site of transformation, radical remembering, and embodied resistance. METAMORPHETIC FIRE invites artists, activists, seekers, and...
CRITICAL PRACTICE with Louie Wisby
Translating anatomies Translating anatomies is a four-week Critical Practice series led by Louie Wisby. This research is an inquiry into how the concepts we have of our bodies inform the ways that we move them. Using techniques from and drawing on physical...
Launch of Critical Dialogues #16 and the “Vignettes flickers fades” project
Publication launch and archival project Join us for the launch of the special edition of Critical Dialogues celebrating 20 years of Critical Path. Edited by Ira Ferris. The publication launch is accompanied by the archival project “Vignettes flickers fades”,...
EVERY WILD IDEA
A 3-DAY FESTIVAL CELEBRATING 20 YEARS OF CRITICAL PATH Critical Path celebrates two decades of choreographic innovation in the Drill Hall. Throughout the weekend, we open our doors for all curious minds to witness artists at work, experience dance archives in sound...
BREAKTHROUGHS
Multiscreen Installation by filmmaker Deborah May What happens when we follow a flash of inspiration over time? The moment when memories, cultures and fragments of practice connect with renewed vitality. For artists committed to a lifetime of exploration, these...
EVERY WILD IDEA curated by Azzam Mohamed
Live Performance Event Every Wild Idea, our 3-day festival celebrating 20 years of Critical Path, opens with a live performance event curated by artist Azzam Mohamed. In the spirit of experimentation, research and risk-taking, seven artists are invited to take part in...
CRITICAL PATH AND C-LAB IN LIVEWORKS 2025
I Remember What The Machine Remembers What I Remember : 我記得住機器記住我記住的 "Data leaves our separate bodies and returns as a shared (if corrupted) memory. Bodies of data, amalgamated and discorporate. Our incantation invokes the memory. If this festival is a venue for...
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