Critical Path is thrilled to be travelling to the Lyon Dance Biennale 2025
The Keir Foundation, in partnership with Critical Path, is offering five International Travel Fellowships for artists to attend the Lyon Dance Biennale this September and its programs FORUM and FOCUS. The fellowships have been awarded to artists Joel Bray, Raghav Handa, Melanie Lane, Sandra Parker and Feras Shaheen. Critical Path’s Director, Agnès Michelet, will attend the Biennale to accompany the Australian artists and develop new international collaborations for future exchanges.
The Lyon Dance Biennale, created in 1984, is the world’s largest dance festival. Each edition features over 40 shows and public programs presented in 22 venues in Lyon and also in 30 towns and across the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. In 2023, it attracted an audience of 200,000 people and over 1000 international professionals from 55 countries. Its famous Défilé, a large-scale dance parade, the culmination of months of rehearsals, brings together 4,000 amateur participants who are acclaimed by more than 150,000 spectators.
FORUM is a new Biennale project coordinated by French Australian curator Angela Conquet. Conceived through a collaborative curatorial process, FORUM invited five curators and five artists/companies from five countries/continents Brazil, United States, Australia, Taiwan, and Mozambique as part of an experimental international platform aimed at fostering choreographic cooperation and circulation while addressing contemporary social, identity-based, and ecological upheavals. The program invites participants to explore alternative relationships between art and society through dialogical and participatory activities.
More on the Keir International Travel Fellowships, the Lyon Dance Biennale and the FORUM.
IMAGE CREDIT: Marrugeku’s Cut The Sky, Melbourne, 2016, Josh Mu as kangaroo walking, photo by Bryony Jackson.
IMAGE ID: A person stands in a performance space filled with haze that is lit with a yellow hue. The performer is slightly bent forward and wears a high vis vest and kangaroo head.
Critical Path respectfully acknowledges the Gadigal and Birrabirragal people of the Eora Nation, the traditional owners of the land where the organisation is based.