Public Events Archive

Sue Healey 6-day Workshop June 12, 13, 14, 19, 20 & 21 9:30-11:00am These six classes will evolve to create a body of material that focuses on animating a large group of movers in a structured improvisation. The classes will involve playing with scale and...

Women’s Work Workshop and Afternoon Tea Sunday 28 April, 2:00pm - 4:30pm @ Critical Path, The Drill, 1C New Beach Rd, Rushcutters Bay Invitation to young dancers A unique opportunity to participate in a Dance Workshop where young female dancers, (8 to 12 years old)...

Blacktown Arts and Critical Path invite you to join four respected artists for a unique exchange of food and conversation. Artists Brian Fuata, Julie-Anne Long, Anna Kuroda and Taree Sansbury will lead conversations over a meal - a series of four starters shared as...

City Horses Workshop with Helena Byström and Anna Källblad (Sweden) Artist talk and workshop with Byström Källblad; presentation of the work City Horses and talk about dance and the female body in relation to public space and art. For outdoor participation please wear...

Susurrus is a new trans-disciplinary project and performance exploring the intangible whisper, rustle or murmur. The work draws a parallel between a human midlife crisis and the current environmental crisis, linking the personal to the global. Susurrus is driven by...

Inviting you into the creative process of their newest creation, international performance group Susurrus will lead a 2-hour workshop. ‘Part of, within’ is focused on developing environmental awareness through embodiment. Susurrus is inspired by one of ecopsychology`s...

First Run is facilitated by Brooke Stamp and Rhiannon Newton. First Run was initiated through Lucy Guerin Inc. in 2008 and in Sydney First Run has been supported by Critical Path and ReadyMade Works Studio since 2017. First Run is an informal gathering around two...

Gathering for Senior Creative Women – Expressions of Interest What challenges do senior female choreographers face? This conversation between choreographic artists aims to celebrate older women working in dance and introduce audiences to the process, practice and...

Cathy Livermore and Eric Avery will present a public workshop at the Drill Hall on Friday 15 March 2-4pm. Cathy Livermore (NZ) and Eric Avery (NSW) will continue their collaboration focusing on intercultural spaces and new media explorations; a pulsating, animated...

Pepa Ubera will present her research at the Drill Hall, Critical Path on Saturday 9 March at 6pm. Pepa Ubera is a freelance dance artist based in London whose choreographic practice expands into curatorial projects and the use of video in performance. Her work...

Amrita Hepi and Jahra ‘Rager’ Wasasala will present a free public workshop at the Drill Hall on Friday 1 March after their week in research at the Drill Hall as part of the March Dance festival. Amrita and Jahra first met on a residency at the Banff centre 2014 and...

20 January at Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences, 3pm. How does dance help us think about the future? Critical Path in partnership with MAAS invite five choreographers and five specialists from other disciplines to respond to the idea of the Anthropocene, the human...

Saturday 19 January 2019, 3:00 - 4:30pm What challenges do senior female choreographers face? This conversation between choreographic artists aims to celebrate older women working in dance and introduce audiences to the process, practice and achievements of artists,...

Sharing - 20 December, 5pm in the Drill Hall  Skye Reynolds and Khamlane Halsackda will share an open conversation about new work in the Drill Hall on the 20 December at 5pm. Skye & Khamlane will be in residence from 17 - 21 December at Critical Path. During this...

SERPENT/S Anandavalli and Vicki Van Hout present the first work in progress showing of the interdisciplinary dance-theatre work, Serpent/s, on the mythological and contemporary significance of the serpent in Australian indigenous and Indian cultures. A Q and A will...

Angela Goh & Ivey Wawn Sharing at Tanzhaus, Zurich - 14 December 2018.  Angela Goh & Ivey Wawn will be travelling to Switzerland in December to participate in a two week residency at Tanzhaus Zurich as part of the Swiss-Australian Exchange program in...

Sharing at the Drill Hall, Tuesday 11 December 7.00pm - 8.00pm In May this year Rajni Shah was in residency with Alex Tálamo and Victoria Hunt for 3 weeks at the Drill. Their exploration ‘I don’t know how (to decolonise myself)’ was the third project supported by...

Angela Goh will present at Scope #4 on the 2 December at Dance Nucleus, Singapore. “Navigating the Uncanny Valley, Creeping the Desert, Dancing in Scum, and Losing the Body (Embodying Loss)" A ride through the back-end of the processes and ideas connecting Angela...

International performing and visual artists as well as choreographers are invited to submit a proposal for a residency which may include developing a new work (Dance, Theatre, Photography, Film); or investigating some aspects or ideas in their already existing...

Su WenChi & Adelina Larsson will be in residence at Mirramu Creative Arts Centre from October 29 – November 9 in partnership with Critical Path. There will be a public sharing at Mirramu Creative Art Centre at 6pm on Tuesday November 6.  Mirramu and Critical Path...

Critical Path’s Central West Regional Practice Lab 4 – 9 November 2018 Bathurst, Cowra and Orange   For this choreographic residency network project, that will connect artists working in dance & choreography to the Central West NSW region, Critical Path...

Following a residency at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland, Su Wen-Chi was inspired by the similarities that both the arts and sciences shared in their approach to research and conceptual thinking. In this workshop, Su Wen-Chi will share her experiences as...

Mirramu, BlakDance and Critical Path are in their second year of  partnerships engaging First Nations Australian Artists in a week long residency. The 2018 residency will take place from October 1 – 6 with artists Carly Sheppard, Eric Avery, Katie Lesley, Joel Bray...

Rosalind Crisp and team presents DIRt  -  Dance In Regional disaster zones seminar performance, part of their residency at Critical Path. DIRt was initiated by East Gippsland-based international dancer/choreographer Rosalind Crisp in 2017, drawing artists and...

Following from their residency in April & May at Catapult’s Studio, artists Angeline Diaz, Alysha Fewster and Natasha Rogers will spend a week at the Drill Hall connecting with local artists and opening up dialogue around their current practice and new work...

This year’s Adhocracy residency project, Kinstillatory Mappings in Light and Dark Matter, is a new process-based work by Emily Johnson. Emily is a First Nations artist from the USA. Originally from Alaska and of Yup’ik descent, she is based in New York City where she...

Louise's recent work uses the symbolism and philosophy from alchemy as an overarching theme and includes an integrated visual description of the work, which describes that which cannot be seen. She is entering into a month of research in Australia spending time in...

  What does it mean to acknowledge Country? Artists Katina Olsen and Lizzie Thomson explore how we consider the land we live and work on. How our bodies acknowledge this place (here and now). This sharing is the work of their short research with artist...

Critical Path Director Claire Hicks speaks with Anna Cy Chan about international performance practice, cross disciplinary collaboration and arts development in relation to space and place. 6:30 pm Free for Keir Choreographic Award ticketholders. Book for the talk...

Thursday 15 March 4 to 6pm Lucy Guerin will talk about her choreographic work, what has shaped it, and how her interests have evolved over time. She will be joined by guest artists for a conversation around how we negotiate the frame through which other people view...