Program
Monday 15 December, 2025 - Saturday 28 March, 2026
Applications for the 2026 Experimental Choreographic Program are now open! 2026 PROGRAM DATES 2–14 March: Experimental Choreographic Residency 16–28 March: Experimental Choreographic Lab APPLICATION DATES 15 December 2025: Applications Open 14 January...
Tuesday 2 December, 9am - Monday 15 December, 2025 11pm
2026 EXPERIMENTAL CHOREOGRAPHIC PROGRAM 2026 PROGRAM DATES 2–14 March: Experimental Choreographic Residency 16–28 March: Experimental Choreographic Lab APPLICATION DATES 9 December 2025: Online Information Session – Register Here 15 December 2025: Applications...
Thursday 20 November, 6pm - Thursday 11 December, 2025 9pm
Grief and Pleasure as Research and Play Grief and Pleasure as Research and Play is a four-week Critical Practice series facilitated by Peter Banki. We often think of pleasure and grief as spontaneous states that arise in the body. Curiosity about pleasure is...
Wednesday 19 November - Wednesday 10 December, 2025
METAMORPHETIC FIRE: Decolonial Repatterning for Artists and Activists An intensive performance workshop series exploring creativity as a site of transformation, radical remembering, and embodied resistance. METAMORPHETIC FIRE invites artists, activists, seekers, and...
Monday 17 November - Monday 8 December, 2025
Translating anatomies Translating anatomies is a four-week Critical Practice series led by Louie Wisby. This research is an inquiry into how the concepts we have of our bodies inform the ways that we move them. Using techniques from and drawing on physical...
Sunday 16 November, 11am - Sunday 16 November, 2025 1pm
Publication launch and archival project Join us for the launch of the special edition of Critical Dialogues celebrating 20 years of Critical Path. Edited by Ira Ferris. The publication launch is accompanied by the archival project “Vignettes flickers fades”,...
Friday 14 November, 7pm - Sunday 16 November, 2025 3pm
A 3-DAY FESTIVAL CELEBRATING 20 YEARS OF CRITICAL PATH Critical Path celebrates two decades of choreographic innovation in the Drill Hall. Throughout the weekend, we open our doors for all curious minds to witness artists at work, experience dance archives in sound...
Friday 14 November, 7pm - Sunday 16 November, 2025 3pm
Multiscreen Installation by filmmaker Deborah May What happens when we follow a flash of inspiration over time? The moment when memories, cultures and fragments of practice connect with renewed vitality. For artists committed to a lifetime of exploration, these...
Friday 14 November, 7pm - Friday 14 November, 2025 9pm
Live Performance Event Every Wild Idea, our 3-day festival celebrating 20 years of Critical Path, opens with a live performance event curated by artist Azzam Mohamed. In the spirit of experimentation, research and risk-taking, seven artists are invited to take part in...
Wednesday 22 October, 8pm - Saturday 25 October, 2025 8pm
I Remember What The Machine Remembers What I Remember : 我記得住機器記住我記住的 "Data leaves our separate bodies and returns as a shared (if corrupted) memory. Bodies of data, amalgamated and discorporate. Our incantation invokes the memory. If this festival is a venue for...
Saturday 6 September, 6pm - Sunday 28 September, 2025 11pm
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...
Thursday 31 July, 6pm - Thursday 28 August, 2025 9pm
A Series of Experiments A Series of Experiments is a five-part movement class and choreographic research series led by Lee-Anne Litton. Designed for emerging and established professionals alike, this series offers a space to explore compatible practices through...
Wednesday 30 July - Wednesday 27 August, 2025
Butoh: How to Be Present and Have Presence A 5-week workshop series with Dwayne Lawler. This series covers the fundamentals of Butoh training including the use of imagery, visualisation techniques and ‘choreo-impro’ (improvisation within a structured pattern of...
Monday 14 July, 6pm - Monday 4 August, 2025 9pm
METAMORPHETIC STORM: Decolonial Repatterning for Artists and Activists An intensive performance workshop series exploring creativity as a site of transformation, radical remembering, and embodied resistance. METAMORPHETIC STORM invites artists, activists, seekers, and...
Monday 14 July, 6pm - Monday 4 August, 2025 9pm
TREMOR2 BY HELENE MARKSTEIN In partnership with the Sydney Opera House and their Create Space Artist Residency Program, Critical Path is supporting performance maker, designer-scenographer Dr Helene Markstein. During her August 2025 residency, Markstein is developing...
Thursday 5 June - Thursday 3 July, 2025
Koyo (紅葉) – a 5-week workshop series with Reina Takeuchi, Takeshi Matsumoto & Hoyori Maruo as part of CRITICAL PRACTICE Koyo (紅葉) refers to the red, orange, and yellow leaves that change colour every autumn, and the tradition of appreciating colours during the...
Wednesday 4 June - Wednesday 2 July, 2025
Join ADT for a 3-hour workshop exploring company repertoire Internationally renowned and Kaurna Yerta/Adelaide based company, Australian Dance Theatre invites dancers to join the company for a workshop exploring ADT’s explosive work Marrow. Bracingly honest, Marrow is...
Wednesday 4 June - Wednesday 2 July, 2025
Company 'We Are Here' is working in residence at Critical Path in 2025 We Are Here Company makes hi fi work in lo fi ways. Borne out of ENCOUNTER, led by Emma Saunders and the drive to continue making work. We began in 2020, in partnership with FORM Dance Projects in...
Wednesday 4 June - Wednesday 2 July, 2025
Join choreographer James Batchelor for a 3-hour workshop exploring his work Resonance, premiering in IDEA'25. ... DATE 20 SEPTEMBER 2025 SATURDAY 11AM - 2PM LOCATION THE DRILL HALL, CRITICAL PATH 1C NEW BEACH ROAD, DARLING POINT, NSW, 2027 GADIGAL & BIRRABIRRAGAL...
Monday 2 June - Monday 30 June, 2025
Energy Image Flow – a 5-week workshop series with Lian Loke as part of CRITICAL PRACTICE Energy Image Flow is an enquiry into the intersection of Qigong energy cultivation with movement improvisation for dance and performance. Qigong is an Eastern Daoist system that...
Saturday 12 April, 4pm - Saturday 12 April, 2025 6pm
Presented by Critical Path and Performance Space 4:00PM, SATURDAY 12 APRIL 2025 Join us for a work-in-progress showing by our 2025 Experimental Choreographic Lab artists Emma Maye Gibson, Sarah Kalule, Keila Terencio de Paula, Kino McHugh and Mitchell Christie....
Sunday 16 March, 3pm - Sunday 16 March, 2025 5pm
We Create Safe Spaces Report Launch 3:00PM, SUNDAY 16 MARCH 2025 Critical Path's First Nations Artist-Curator Jasmin Sheppard invites you to the launch of the report We Create Safe Spaces. Please join us on March 16 at 3:00 PM for drinks and nibbles, screening...
Saturday 8 March, 11am - Saturday 8 March, 2025 3pm
CRITICAL PATH IS 20! 11AM TO 3PM, SATURDAY 8 MARCH 2025 Join us to celebrate our 20th Birthday with a jam-packed program of performances, talks and workshops. Critical Path has been championing our community of independent dance artists and nurturing choreographic...
Wednesday 12 February - Wednesday 12 March, 2025
Contemporary Folk Dance – a 5-week workshop series with Eliza Cooper as part of CRITICAL PRACTICE Eliza is researching British folk dances and developing choreographic materials based on their rhythms, structures and functions. In 2023, she undertook the Rapport...
Monday 10 February, 6pm - Monday 10 March, 2025 9pm
Metemorphetic States: Bodies, Entities, Forces, Atmospheres – a 5-week workshop series with Victoria Hunt as part of CRITICAL PRACTICE Based on the success of Victoria's 8-week practice series in 2024, Victoria returns to Critical Path to lead a continuation of this...
Saturday 18 January - Sunday 19 January, 2025
A two-day immersive workshop by weather beings - a performance collaborative co-founded by Victoria Hunt and Moe Clark. Drawing from principles that animate beyond human kinships and call backwards into the future of indigiqueer brilliance and Indigenous knowledges,...
The Drill, 1C New Beach Rd,
Darling Point (Rushcutters Bay), Sydney