BUMPY HORIZON BY NASIM PATEL
In partnership with the Sydney Opera House and their Create Space artist residency program, Critical Path is supporting choreographer and writer Nasim Patel. During his September 2026 residency, Patel is developing a new work Bumpy Horizon in collaboration with performers Phaedra Brown, Vourneen NiCainin and Louie Wisby, and mentors Raghav Handa and Matt Cornell.
NASIM PATEL
Nasim Patel is a choreographer and writer working with diasporic identities, technologies and the Anthropocene through choreography, rap, digital work, game development, and writing. He is drawn to embodiment as a common denominator for human experience, exploring how choreography can relate disparate ideas and stories. Nasim’s work blurs the line between live and virtual, investigating how modern technology mediates communication and storytelling.
He was a primary collaborator on Chris Chua’s 2022 video-game movement performance BeatStorm, presented at Dancehouse, Melbourne, and Riverside Theatres, Paramatta by FORM Dance Projects. In 2024, Nasim participated in the Taiwan and Australia Choreography and Technology Exchange Program, organised between Critical Path and the Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab. The collaboration between Taiwanese and Australian artists led to the creation of BODY-DATA-LOOP in Taiwan, and I remember what the machine remembers what I remember, which premiered as part of Performance Space’s 2025 Liveworks festival.
The Create Space September residency was enabled by the JACE Foundation.
Photo: Nasim Patel (pictured with Louie Wisby), Bumpy Horizon work-in-progress sharing, Create Space September 2026 Residency, Sydney Opera House in partnership with Critical Path, photo by Cassandra Hannagan.
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