Past Programs

Program

EOI: side.step 2025

EOI: side.step 2025

Due September 1st 2025

Tuesday 12 August, 10am - Monday 1 September, 2025 11pm

Expressions of Interest for side.step are now open! Independent choreographers and dancers are invited to apply for side.step, a new initiative by artist Ella Watson-Heath supporting choreographic work through the provision of 20 hours of free studio space and an...

Critical Path Partnership with Catapult Dance Choreographic Hub

Critical Path Partnership with Catapult Dance Choreographic Hub

Friday 6 June - Monday 9 June, 2025

Remy Rochester and Angus Onley  Critical Path is supporting Remy Rochester and Angus Onley for the development of their duet work Please…continue? through rehearsal space at the Drill Hall and cash bursary in partnership with Catapult Dance Choreographic Hub for their...

EOI: RECHARGE Space Grants, Research Room, Critical Practice [Semester 2, 2025]

EOI: RECHARGE Space Grants, Research Room, Critical Practice [Semester 2, 2025]

Closing 27 April 2025, 11:59PM

Monday 7 April, 10am - Sunday 27 April, 2025 11pm

Critical Path invites you to apply for a RECHARGE Space Grant, Critical Practice and Research Room Residency in Semester 2, 2025. Our second semester call out is now open for independent choreographers and dancers to experiment with ideas, undertake focused research...

Contact Improvisation Program with Nita Little

Contact Improvisation Program with Nita Little

Friday 31 January - Friday 31 January, 2025

Join contact improvisation pioneer Nita Little for 3 weeks of workshops at The Drill Hall and MARCS from 13 - 31 January in 2025. ... Nita Little investigates embodied attention and creative relational practices within movement, particularly in Contact Improvisation...

SPACE GRANTS JANUARY-JUNE 2025

SPACE GRANTS JANUARY-JUNE 2025

Monday 13 January - Monday 31 March, 2025

Announcing our Space Grant recipients for January-June 2025 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 recipients.  We are excited to...

RESEARCH ROOM RESIDENTS JANUARY-MARCH 2025

RESEARCH ROOM RESIDENTS JANUARY-MARCH 2025

Monday 13 January - Monday 31 March, 2025

Announcing our Research Room recipients for January-March 2025 Research Room Residencies give artists an opportunity to use the Research Room without any predetermined outcomes. Critical Path waives the venue hire fees for the room for successful recipients.  We are...

SPACE GRANTS JUNE–DECEMBER 2025

SPACE GRANTS JUNE–DECEMBER 2025

Monday 13 January - Monday 31 March, 2025

Announcing our RECHARGE Space Grant recipients for June-August 2025 RECHARGE Space Grants give artists an opportunity to use The Drill Hall without any predetermined outcomes.   We are excited to announce our recipients: Eric Avery, Nasim Patel, Sue Healey, Sabrina...

RESEARCH ROOM RESIDENTS JUNE-DECEMBER 2025

RESEARCH ROOM RESIDENTS JUNE-DECEMBER 2025

Monday 13 January - Monday 31 March, 2025

Announcing our Research Room recipients for June–December 2025 Research Room Residencies give artists an opportunity to use the Research Room without any predetermined outcomes.   We are excited to announce our recipients for June to December 2025: Annalouise Paul,...

QUICK RESPONSE SPACE GRANTS [DEC 2024]

QUICK RESPONSE SPACE GRANTS [DEC 2024]

Tuesday 3 December - Thursday 5 December, 2024

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...

EOI: Space, Research, Workshops [TERM 1, 2025]

EOI: Space, Research, Workshops [TERM 1, 2025]

Tuesday 3 December, 2024 12am - Sunday 12 January, 2025 12am

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 Taiwan premiere tour

BODY DATA LOOP Taiwan premiere tour

Friday 15 November - Sunday 24 November, 2024

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...

QUICK RESPONSE SPACE GRANTS [NOV 2024]

QUICK RESPONSE SPACE GRANTS [NOV 2024]

Monday 4 November - Thursday 28 November, 2024

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...

CRITICAL PRACTICE [OCT – DEC 2024]

CRITICAL PRACTICE [OCT – DEC 2024]

Monday 21 October - Wednesday 18 December, 2024

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...

EOI: QUICK RESPONSE SPACE GRANTS [NOV 2024]

EOI: QUICK RESPONSE SPACE GRANTS [NOV 2024]

CLOSING 4 OCT 2024, 11:59PM

Friday 4 October - Friday 4 October, 2024

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...

HOLDING SPACE (First Nations 2024 Program)

HOLDING SPACE (First Nations 2024 Program)

Thursday 11 July - Tuesday 31 December, 2024

Jasmin Sheppard’s First Nations 2024 program takes place under the canopy of the title ‘Holding Space’. Holding Space in an Indigenous context means to create room for deep thinking, for big and hard questions, to make a safe place for great and important work; to be...

RESEARCH ROOM Residencies (2024 – term 2)

RESEARCH ROOM Residencies (2024 – term 2)

FROM 2 WEEKS UP TO 2 MONTHS, BETWEEN 1 JULY AND 15 DECEMBER

Wednesday 1 May, 12pm - Tuesday 31 December, 2024 12am

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....

2024 RESEARCH ROOM residents (Term 1)

2024 RESEARCH ROOM residents (Term 1)

Tuesday 2 April, 12am - Tuesday 31 December, 2024 12am

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...

2024 RESPONSIVE RESIDENCY: Keila Terencio

2024 RESPONSIVE RESIDENCY: Keila Terencio

Thursday 28 March, 12am - Tuesday 31 December, 2024 12am

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...

2024 RESPONSIVE RESIDENCY: Victoria Hunt

2024 RESPONSIVE RESIDENCY: Victoria Hunt

How do we embody the urgent grief cry of the world?

Tuesday 5 March, 12am - Tuesday 31 December, 2024 12am

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...

What moves us makes us the mover we are

What moves us makes us the mover we are

Sunday 21 January, 12am - Tuesday 31 December, 2024 12am

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...

January 2024 in the Drill Hall

January 2024 in the Drill Hall

Monday 1 January, 12am - Tuesday 31 December, 2024 12am

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...

2024 RESPONSIVE RESIDENCIES

2024 RESPONSIVE RESIDENCIES

Friday 8 December, 2023 12am - Tuesday 31 December, 2024 12am

Victoria Hunt, Keila Terencio, Paul Walker have been selected as our 2024 Responsive Residents. VICTORIA HUNT (March, 2024) Victoria Hunt will use the residency to consider "how I am able to grow my capacities to hold space for others". "How do we feel our connection...

RESEARCH ROOM Residencies (2024 – term 1)

RESEARCH ROOM Residencies (2024 – term 1)

FROM 2 WEEKS UP TO 2 MONTHS, BETWEEN 26 FEBRUARY AND 30 JUNE

Thursday 7 December, 2023 12pm - Sunday 30 June, 2024 12am

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....

EOI: Critical Dialogues issue 15 (TIME)

EOI: Critical Dialogues issue 15 (TIME)

Wednesday 8 November, 12am - Sunday 31 December, 2023 12am

The 15th edition of our bi-annual publication Critical Dialogues will focus on the editorial theme: 'TIME' We are calling for contributions from those engaged in dance (in whatever capacity) who are interested in reflecting on TIME as a choreographic tool, concept, or...

CALLING FOR APPLICATIONS

CALLING FOR APPLICATIONS

Critical Path Responsive Residencies 2024

Tuesday 5 September, 2023 - Monday 2 September, 2024

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...

GRAFTING Space Grants (2023)

GRAFTING Space Grants (2023)

Tuesday 5 September, 2023 - Monday 2 December, 2024

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...

RESEARCH ROOM residents (2023)

RESEARCH ROOM residents (2023)

Thursday 3 August, 2023 - Monday 2 December, 2024

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:...

RESEARCH ROOM Residencies (2023)

RESEARCH ROOM Residencies (2023)

FROM 2 WEEKS UP TO 2 MONTHS, BETWEEN 14 AUGUST AND 24 NOVEMBER

Thursday 29 June, 12pm - Sunday 31 December, 2023 12am

Do you need 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....

Research Room: Nikki Heywood

Research Room: Nikki Heywood

In residence: June 2023

Wednesday 14 June, 12am - Sunday 16 July, 2023 12am

Nikki is researching and thinking about a new performance work generated through embodied writing practices. The project straddles spoken word and extended vocal sound arising through breath and gesture, touching on the limits of perception and precarious transitional...

RECHARGE Space Grants (Winter ’23)

RECHARGE Space Grants (Winter ’23)

Wednesday 31 May, 2023 - Friday 31 May, 2024

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...

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