ID: A blindfolded woman in a dimly lit room crouches on the ground and reaches out into empty space. There are two figures seated in the background. One of them grapples with the torso of a life-sized puppet.

Research Residencies

ARTIST PICNIC: 2024 Responsive Residents

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 movement workshop and a Q&A over nibbles with Critical Path’s 2024 Responsive Residents – Paul Walker, Victoria Hunt and Keila Terencio.

Our Responsive Residencies support NSW artists with a choreographic practice to undertake a self-directed research project that explores new ideas, methodologies, and extends the practice of choreography.


DATE
SATURDAY 12 OCTOBER 2024
10:30AM – 1:30PM

LOCATION
THE DRILL HALL, CRITICAL PATH,
1C NEW BEACH ROAD
DARLING POINT, NSW, 2027
GADIGAL COUNTRY

TICKETS ($30 + booking fee): https://events.humanitix.com/artist-picnic-2024-responsive-residents


10:30AM – 11AM
Guided somatic practices with Paul Walker

11AM – 12PM
MANIPULATIONS: Wind + Tree workshop with Victoria Hunt

12:15pm – 12:45pm
Puppetry + movement sharing with Keila Terencio

1pm – 1:30pm
Q&A over nibbles


VICTORIA HUNT

Victoria Hunt is a multidisciplinary artist with ancestral affiliations to Te Arawa, Rongowhaakata, Kahungunu (Māori) and Pakeha Irish, English, Finnish heritages. Born on Kombumerri Country (Surfers Paradise, Australia), their work as a dancer, choreographer, director, dramaturg and photographer delves into Indigenous epistemologies within diasporic concepts of identity formation and belonging. Grounded in Mātauaranga Māori, Body Weather philosophy/practice and IndigiQueer revitalization within creation practices, they traverse the politics of Rematriation – inserting bodies into frameworks of power, for future ancestors.

She is a member of De Quincey Co. Australia’s leading Body Weather dance company (Syd), holds a BA in Photography (1999), a first-class honours in Performance Studies (UNSW 2018), is a feature artist in the Biennale of the Arts of the Body, Image and Movement (Madrid), and is the lead actor in two feature-length speculative fiction films, Nightfall on Gaia (2015) and Cosmographies (2024), both directed by Juan Salazar. Victoria is the co-founder of Weather Beings with 2Spirit Metis artist Moe Clark (tio’tia:ke/Montreal).

@wikitoria_hunt

KEILA TERENCIO

Keila Terencio is a performance artist born and raised in Brazil. Her artistic practice intertwines physical theatre and visual arts, delving into the subjects of culture, languages, and diversity through the mediums of aerial dance, puppetry, and movement. Keila’s creations are multi-dimensional, incorporating objects, installations, and audience engagement. 

Keila has worked as a puppeteer at Belvoir Street Theatre for their production “The Weekend” and at Erth Visual and Physical Inc. over the last 2 years on national and international puppetry-based tours. She has also been involved in creative projects with Sydney Opera House’s Centre for Creativity and Strings Attached Physical Theatre. She works as an arts facilitator for a number of arts organisations to run outreach workshop programs.

@keilaterencio

PAUL WALKER

Paul Walker (he/they) is a dancer, performance artist and arts worker who lives, works, and plays on Widjabul Wia-bul Bundjalung Country. For the past 20 years, Paul has been performing, teaching, and making dance, theatre, live art, interactive performance, cabaret, and drawing all around the world. Paul experiments with these mediums to explore themes and practices related to our relationship to our bodies, each other, and the more-than-human world we live in.

Paul graduated from the Central School of Ballet in 2007 and has since performed in works by Opera Australia, MOD Dance Company, Leigh Warren and Dancers, Dean Walsh, Ivey Wawn, Nick Cave and Tino Segal, as well as creating works for Day for Night, EDGE Sydenham, Crack Festival, and Queer Nu Werk. Paul recently received Artist Seed Funding from NORPA for the first stage of development for I Will Survive, a creative recovery project for the Northern Rivers LGBTIQA+ community.

@yieldingtime


GETTING HERE

A day image of The Drill Hall in Darling Point, Sydney. It is a two-storey, mustard heritage building. People are gathered outside The Drill Hall

CAR:
Limited street parking is available along: New Beach Road, Loftus Road, Yarranabbe Road, Neild Avenue and Glenmore Road. There is also a paid carpark near Edgecliff Station.

TRAIN:
The closest station is Edgecliff Station. It is a 15-minute walk from Critical Path. Walk down New Beach Road past the marina and yacht club at Rushcutters Bay. The Drill Hall will be on your left.

BUS: 
The #324 and #325 buses departs from Circular Quay Station. It passes Wynyard, Town Hall, Darlinghurst, Kings Cross and Rushcutters Bay. Get off at the stop ‘Baywater Rd before New Beach Rd’ and walk down New Beach Road past the marina and yacht club at Rushcutters Bay. The Drill Hall will be on your left.

The #328 bus departs from Edgecliff Station. It will stop right outside The Drill Hall. It runs every 30 minutes.


ENQUIRIES

If you have any questions, please email Critical Path at [email protected]


Image: Keila Terencio with Renata Commisso & Rudolf Hendrikx, Two Bodies One Mind, 2024, puppetry & movement based work; photo: Katje Ford.

Image: Experimental Choreographic Showing, 2024, The Drill Hall; photo: Liz Ham for Performance Space.

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Critical Path

The Drill, 1C New Beach Rd,
Darling Point (Rushcutters Bay), Sydney