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UNVEILINGS / Wonder If

UNVEILINGS / Wonder If

Saturday 23 November, 6pm - Saturday 23 November, 2024 6pm

Transforming an iconic heritage building through experimental choreography and visual arts Critical Path will transform the iconic, heritage building, The Drill Hall, with an experimental choreography and visual arts performance, UNVEILINGS / Wonder If by Katya...

SHARING: The Art of Slowing Down to Save Our Lives

SHARING: The Art of Slowing Down to Save Our Lives

Friday 11 October, 3pm - Friday 11 October, 2024 7pm

Critical Path invites you to a sharing of research results, reflections and practices with Paul Walker from their 2024 Responsive Residency project - ‘The Art of Slowing Down to Save Our Lives’. ... INVITATION "My research considers what the individual, collective and...

UNVEILINGS // Mudrāsā মুদ্রাসা

UNVEILINGS // Mudrāsā মুদ্রাসা

Friday 11 October, 3pm - Friday 11 October, 2024 7pm

Dance, at the intersection of visual art, installation and performance art. ... FROM THE ARTIST "MUDRASA is my own merging of two words mudra (gesture) and rasa (essence),that is the title of a three-day intensive dance residency at Critical Path. I will expand upon...

IDEA’24 creative developments with Critical Path

IDEA’24 creative developments with Critical Path

Saturday 31 August - Friday 13 September, 2024

Critical Path and FORM Dance Projects are excited to support the creative developments of Alex Craig, Speak Percussion and Azzam Mohamed and Lee-Anne Litton for IDEA'24. IDEA is a new Sydney based festival of creative ideas, workshops and performances delivered by...

WHAT REMAINS [MELBOURNE]

WHAT REMAINS [MELBOURNE]

Celebrating the Keir Choreographic Award 2014-2024

Saturday 24 August, 5pm - Saturday 24 August, 2024 10pm

Critical Path, The Keir Foundation and Creative Australia invite you to celebrate a decade of the pivotal Keir Choreographic Award in Melbourne on 24 August. --- 📆: 24 AUGUST 2024 🕔: 5PM - 10PM 📍: ABBOTSFORD CONVENT RSVP HERE WHAT REMAINS is a celebratory program that...

WHAT REMAINS [SYDNEY]

WHAT REMAINS [SYDNEY]

Celebrating the Keir Choreographic Award 2014-2024

Saturday 17 August, 5pm - Saturday 17 August, 2024 10pm

Critical Path, The Keir Foundation and Creative Australia invite you to celebrate a decade of the pivotal Keir Choreographic Award in Sydney on 17 August. --- 📆: 17 AUGUST 2024 🕔: 5PM - 10PM 📍: CRITICAL PATH RSVP HERE WHAT REMAINS is a celebratory program that...

“First Nations choreography” (Open Panel Discussion)

“First Nations choreography” (Open Panel Discussion)

Post-colonial process, protocols, and diasporic expression

Thursday 11 July, 9am - Thursday 11 July, 2024 11am

  "There is a deepening connection between First Nations artists in Australia, and across the seas with Aotearoa and Turtle Island. Our Peoples have a common coloniser, shared experience, and importantly, common unbreakable connections to our land and community....

CRITICAL PRACTICE with Victoria Hunt

CRITICAL PRACTICE with Victoria Hunt

Block One: Wind + Tree

Thursday 23 May, 12am - Tuesday 31 December, 2024 12am

On the back of her 2024 Responsive Residency at Critical Path, and as a continuation of her research process, Victoria Hunt will run a series of workshops, the first of which is under the theme: MANIPULATIONS: Wind + Tree The aim of this workshop series is to create a...

2024 EXPERIMENTAL CHOREOGRAPHIC LAB: ‘Grief’

2024 EXPERIMENTAL CHOREOGRAPHIC LAB: ‘Grief’

Partnership with Performance Space

Thursday 23 May, 12am - Tuesday 31 December, 2024 12am

An inaugural program, and an extension of our 9-year partnership with Performance Space, the 2024 EXPERIMENTAL CHOREOGRAPHIC LAB will see five selected movement-artists come together over a week-long process to explore shared themes of grief, ritual, submerged...

IDEA’24 workshops and talks at Critical Path

IDEA’24 workshops and talks at Critical Path

Thursday 23 May, 12am - Tuesday 31 December, 2024 12am

Critical Path and FORM Dance Projects are excited to present two workshops with 2 international artists and a talk at The Drill Hall as a part of IDEA'24. IDEA is a new Sydney based festival of creative ideas, workshops and performances delivered by local and global...

Development sharing/Workshop with Keila Terencio

Development sharing/Workshop with Keila Terencio

Tuesday 9 April, 12am - Tuesday 31 December, 2024 12am

Wednesday 17 April, 6 – 8pm The Drill Hall, The Drill, 1C New Beach Rd, Darling Point (Rushcutters Bay), Sydney Our 2024 research resident Keila Terencio and her team...

A day-long immersive workshop with Victoria Hunt

A day-long immersive workshop with Victoria Hunt

GRIEF CRY: energetic fields and conscious relations

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

Saturday 23 March, 10am – 5pm The Drill Hall, The Drill, 1C New Beach Rd, Darling Point (Rushcutters Bay), Sydney REGISTER...

Spaces for Street Dance – Report Launch

Spaces for Street Dance – Report Launch

Tuesday 5 March, 6 to 8 PM, Redfern Oval Community Room

Thursday 15 February, 12am - Tuesday 31 December, 2024 12am

The Spaces for Street Dance research and feasibility study was a year-long research on the diverse styles and cultures of Sydney’s street dance community, led by Dr Rachael Gunn (Macquarie University) and Feras Shaheen, in partnership with Critical Path and supported...

Artist Picnic 2024

Artist Picnic 2024

11am to 2:30pm, Sunday 3 March

Thursday 1 February, 12am - Tuesday 31 December, 2024 12am

Dear Critical Path Community, We invite you to our 2024 Artist Picnic, held from 11am on Sunday 3 March at the Drill.  The event is an opportunity for the community to come together, meet our team and 2024 resident artists who will share about their choreographic...

Henrietta Baird sharing and weaving sessions

Henrietta Baird sharing and weaving sessions

Plant a Promise & Truth Telling residency

Tuesday 5 September, 12am - Thursday 21 September, 2023 12am

From 4 to 22 September 2023, a Kuku Yalanji choreographer Henrietta Baird will be in the Drill Hall to continue her Truth Telling residency and the development of Plant a Promise project which centres around land management and climate change from both scientific...

We sent our bodies to ourselves in the future. And they have just arrived…

We sent our bodies to ourselves in the future. And they have just arrived…

Part of March Dance 2023

Sunday 12 March - Sunday 12 March, 2023

We sent our bodies to ourselves in the future. And they have just arrived… is the first in a series of Sci-Fi conceits that begets dancing - choreographed by M@ (aka Matt Cornell) in collaboration with Bgirl Raygun (Dr Rachael Gunn) and Romain Hassanin. We will share...

CONVERSATION: What happens in the pause?

CONVERSATION: What happens in the pause?

Part of March Dance 2023

Sunday 5 March - Sunday 5 March, 2023

In this conversation with dance and movement-makers, we will consider the value of rest, pause, and stillness in creative practice and within dance. How do we, institutionally, come to recognise pause as an integral part of the creative process? How do we create space...

Sapphire Coast Open Space Technology

Sapphire Coast Open Space Technology

With Navigate Arts

Saturday 26 November - Saturday 26 November, 2022

Saturday 26 November. A day of thinking, talking, sharing, planning and action... In partnership with Navigate Arts Participants will self-organise to create their own agenda on the day, allowing a dynamic and immediate response to the issues at hand. The process...

Slow Talks on the Sapphire Coast

Slow Talks on the Sapphire Coast

One-to-one conversations between practitioners

Friday 25 November, 11am - Friday 25 November, 2022 5pm

Friday 25 November at the PeaNut Eatery, Bega, NSW As an antidote to speed networking we are offering practitioners the chance for a conversation with sector peers; artists, producers, curators, managers. We invite you to sign up for a day of slow conversations... The...

How Will We Take Our Bodies With Us Into The Future?

How Will We Take Our Bodies With Us Into The Future?

Sunday 13 November, 2pm - Sunday 13 November, 2022 4pm

Is an evocation and publication. Via private WIKI, a diverse team of inspiring choreographically and digitally involved artists have imagined SciFi futures and subsequent physical realities for our human bodies. Launch party was held on the 13th of November 2022 at...

Ozfrank Nobbs Suzuki Praxis Workshop Series 2022

Ozfrank Nobbs Suzuki Praxis Workshop Series 2022

Sunday 9 October, 11am - Sunday 16 October, 2022 8pm

Ozfrank is bringing to The Drill a workshop series of theatre’s most dynamic physical training system, the Nobbs Suzuki Praxis (NSP) From Sunday 6 October through to Sunday 16th October, Ozfrank is running a series of six Nobbs Suzuki Praxis workshop sessions....

Movement, Movement: One Day for Dance

Movement, Movement: One Day for Dance

Monday 25 July, 12am - Wednesday 31 August, 2022 12am

Cultural organisations in NSW have joined forces to offer dance artists space to create, connect and share their practice once a month from March – December 2022. One Day For Dance will see one organisation per month provide a studio space free of charge for dance...

Co-immunity: How to Dance When We Are All Ill

Co-immunity: How to Dance When We Are All Ill

Esplanade presents da:ns lab

Thursday 9 July - Sunday 12 July, 2020

Call – out Critical Path is inviting NSW connected artists to apply to da:ns lab, an annual workshop-seminar for artists and arts practitioners to critically reflect on key issues surrounding their creative practice. This year's lab will be a remote meeting taking...

Dancing the Drill: A window to Rhiannon Newton’s Process

Dancing the Drill: A window to Rhiannon Newton’s Process

Rhiannon Newton

Thursday 4 June - Thursday 31 December, 2020

This year we celebrated the 15th Anniversary of Critical Path with a weekend of activities in our home base, The Drill in Rushcutters Bay in February by Dancing the Drill. Dancing the Drill convened around activities that were an extension of our ongoing research and...

Dancing the Drill

Dancing the Drill

Artist Conversations

Thursday 7 May - Thursday 31 December, 2020

This year we celebrated the 15th Anniversary of Critical Path with a weekend of activities in our home base, The Drill in Rushcutters Bay in February by Dancing the Drill. Dancing the Drill convened around activities that were an extension of our ongoing research and...

Catapult Exchange & Double Bill Presentation

Catapult Exchange & Double Bill Presentation

Allie Graham, Skip Willcox, Mikayla Nangle, Alexandra Ford

Wednesday 22 April, 5pm - Monday 31 August, 2020 6pm

The Double Bill featuring Mess by Allie Graham & Skip Willcox and Re/Collect by Mikayla Nangle & Alexandra Ford will no longer be presented at the Drill Hall on Sunday 22 March. As it stands, the Double Bill has been postponed to the beginning of August. This...

Dancing Sydney – Artist-led Dance Archives

Dancing Sydney – Artist-led Dance Archives

Monday 6 April, 2pm - Thursday 30 April, 2020 6pm

The Dancing Sydney - Artist-led Dance Archives gathering will no longer be taking place at Glebe Town Hall on Sunday 29 March. Critical Path is currently in discussions with participating artists to look at the best way forward for those involved to complete the...

Changes to Critical Path Public Events

Changes to Critical Path Public Events

Various Artists

Sunday 22 March - Sunday 14 June, 2020

As the COVID-19 situation unfolds and we move through uncertain times, Critical Path will continue to adapt and respond to ensure the safety of our team, artists, and the wider community. We have been communicating with artists, partners and industry peers this week...

Women’s Work Publication Launch

Women’s Work Publication Launch

Jane McKernan, Jasmin Sheppard, Matthew Doyle, Rhiannon Newton, and Yolande Brown

Sunday 8 March, 4pm - Sunday 8 March, 2020 5pm

Please join us for the launch of the Women’s Work digital publication on International Women’s Day 2020. Incorporating the processes, practices and achievements of 13 senior female dance artists, the publication opens up some of the questions and explorations around...

Dancing the Drill 2020

Dancing the Drill 2020

Jane McKernan, Jasmin Sheppard, Matthew Doyle, Rhiannon Newton, and Yolande Brown

Friday 28 February, 12pm - Sunday 1 March, 2020 4pm

This year we celebrated the 15th Anniversary of Critical Path with a weekend of activities in our home base, The Drill in Rushcutters Bay in February by Dancing the Drill. Dancing the Drill convened around activities that were an extension of our ongoing research and...

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