Critical Practice is a weekly series of evening workshops at The Drill Hall from 21 October to 18 December.
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Critical Practice gives artists the opportunity to share findings from their practice to peers and the wider community via an open workshop setting spanning 8 weeks from 21 October – 18 December 2024.
Critical Path waives venue hire fees for The Drill Hall, handle ticket registrations for workshops and provides marketing support. Profit from the workshops is split between the artist (70%) and Critical Path (30%).
Holistic Ballet Practise | EMMA SANDALL
21 OCT – 16 DEC 2024
MONDAYS
5:30PM – 7PM
Emma has studied and practised ballet since she was a girl and has developed a class that is meditative, safe, sustainable and feels good. In this workshop, Emma passes on her knowledge and love for ballet practice to help experienced movers discover/re-discover this technique for their own unique bodies. Emma focuses on breadth and opposition of movement through the body and where to place attention and intention – so that every gesture becomes expressive and meaningful.
Emma starts by aligning the body in the centre. At the barre, we focus on safely training joint articulation and dynamics through each exercise. In the centre, the practice expands into more dancing sequences that encourage playful weight shifts, turns, rhythms, balances, and jumps. The class builds toward a joyful conclusion, where movement feels harmonious, free, and personally connected.
BOOK HERE: https://events.humanitix.com/critical-practice-sandall-oct-2024
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Mythmaking with writing and movement | TAMARA ELKINS
21 OCT – 16 DEC 2024
MONDAYS
7PM – 9PM
Mythologies help us understand the world, they link us to our histories and reinforce identities. This workshop will explore the mythologies living within us and how they can be turned into a movement-based practice. Beginning with a series of writing exercises focusing on different themes found within mythologies such as transformations, origins and fate, we will go on to explore how creative writing can act as a provocation for generating new movement.
Each workshop will focus on a different theme of mythmaking, meaning you can attend a single or multiple workshops.
Suitable for all levels of dance and writing.
BOOK HERE: https://events.humanitix.com/critical-practice-tamara-oct-2024
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Metamorphetic States: Bodies, Entities, Forces, Atmospheres | VICTORIA HUNT
22 OCT – 17 DEC 2024
TUESDAYS
7PM – 9PM
Can we perceive, construct, and perform animate relationships that are more-than-human?
Can we become the architect of guardian and protector energies during times of collapse?
How must we attune ourselves to the dynamics of embodied intelligence, dream logic, ancestral wisdom and living cycles – coexisting in radical gestures amid the malevolent forces shaping our times.
This workshop series will offer processes that playfully question the bedrock of how we live our lives. Participants are invited to come as you are, and bring your imaginations, an openness to try new approaches, and curiosity.
BOOK HERE: https://events.humanitix.com/critical-practice-victoria-oct-2024
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Moving through Self | CASSIE LYNN
23 OCT – 18 DEC 2024
WEDNESDAYS
5:30PM – 7PM
This series of movement workshops will mainly involve experimentation, improvisation and guided movement activities, to encourage self-reflection and emergence. Dance and movement act as a mirror and metaphor for life. Through this lens we will step into the exploration of Self and play with these themes:
- Seeking
- Navigating
- Surrendering and;
- Community
This communal space aims to create space for play, authentic expression and connection and embodiment. In practising what we know is true for ourselves or in discovering what that is, we can move forward with more aligned choices.
BOOK HERE: https://events.humanitix.com/critical-practice-cassie-oct-2024
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LOCATION
The Drill Hall, Critical Path
1C New Beach Road
Darling Point, NSW, 2027
Gadigal Country
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ENQUIRIES
If you have any questions, please email Dylan Goh at [email protected]
PREVIOUS CRITICAL PRACTICE ARTISTS
VICTORIA HUNT: JUNE – JULY 2024
IMAGE 1: Emma Sandall; photo: courtesy the artist.
IMAGE 2: Tamara Elkins, Mythmaking Workshop, 2022, workshop still; 107 Projects for 107 on the rocks; photo by Tamara Elkins
IMAGE 3: COSMOGRAPHIES film still; photo: Juan Salazar; and KŌIWI, commissioned by the Art Gallery of New South Wales as part of the exhibition Dreamhome: Stories of Art and Shelter, and co-commissioned by Precarious Movements: Choreography and the Museum, an ARC linkage project hosted by UNSW, Monash University Museum of Art, National Gallery of Victoria, Tate UK, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, and the Neilson Foundation, Department of Theatre and Performance Studies, University of Sydney and Marrugeku;
IMAGE 4: Cassie, 2023, photoshoot. Photo credit: Sabrina, ig @rogue._galleries