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Critical Path

Locality: Darling Point, New South Wales, Australia

Phone: +61 2 9362 4023

Address: The Drill, 1c New Beach Rd, Rushcutters Bay 2027 Darling Point, NSW, Australia

Website: http://www.criticalpath.org.au/

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25.01.2022 The first article in the Talking Dance: Dance Ecologies series is now online. Initiated and led by choreographer Martin del Amo, Talking Dance: Dance Ecologies centres around a series of conversations, designed to explore more deeply the way independent choreographers work within the Australian arts sector, and how Critical Path relates to that inter-relationship. Featured in Dance Ecology One are Sydney-based choreographers and dancers Angela Goh, Rhiannon Newton and Ivey Wawn.

24.01.2022 Our latest e-journal Critical Dialogues Issue 12 is now live! This issue focuses on digital technologies in research, development, and practice. As technology develops and improves, choreographers and performers explore the possibilities digital media can offer to the process of creating and performing dance. Edited by Jodie McNeilly Renaudie with contributions from Eddie Ladd, Matt Cornell, Monica Stevens and Simo Kellokumpu.... Access the full interactive publication through our website: criticalpath.org.au/resource_category/critical-dialogues/

24.01.2022 Matt Cornell together with Elle Evangelista, Rhiannon Newton and Amy Zhang worked through choreography, music and writing for his Critical Path Responsive Residency this summer and next week he is having a sharing of his ongoing research... See below for more details...

23.01.2022 Applications for our Digital Artist-Curator role close MONDAY, 16 NOVEMBER, 10AM AEST. Critical Path is piloting the engagement of an Artist-Curator for our Digital Drill, a new ‘place’ where digital tools and online space can be harnessed for artistic research and development. Working closely with the Director you will initiate, develop and line-produce digital projects for artistic research and development. This is a curatorial and a delivery role. For full job description..., visit: https://criticalpath.org.au/applications-open-digital-arti/ Image: Bhenji Ra, Interchange Festival 2017, photo by Matthew Syres

22.01.2022 The third and final article in the Talking Dance: Dance Ecologies series is now online. Initiated and led by choreographer Martin del Amo, Talking Dance: Dance Ecologies centres around a series of conversations, designed to explore more deeply the way independent choreographers work within the Australian arts sector, and how Critical Path relates to that inter-relationship. Featured in Dance Ecology Three are First Nations choreographers and dancers Thomas E.S. Kelly, Taree Sansbury and Katina Olsen

22.01.2022 Critical Path is seeking a dedicated, creative and rigorous person to join our small team as General Manager! More info in the link below. Applications close 10am, Thursday 1 October.

22.01.2022 We are opening up The Drill for 5-day space residencies starting Friday 11 September! This is open to artists needing urgent space for choreographic research and exploration. Below are the 5-day blocks available: 1. Friday 11 - Tuesday 15 September 2. Wednesday 16 - Sunday 20 September ... 3. Monday 21 - Friday 25 September To apply, email [email protected] telling us who you are and describing the choreographic project/work you intend to conduct for this residency using no more than 250 words. Please also indicate your preferred block(s) of dates. Applications close 10am, Wednesday 9 September.

22.01.2022 Artists on Why Dance Matters Now... Enjoy some good reads of the contributing artists and writers we commissioned in partnership with Delving into Dance... The texts explore the connection between digital and dance, others somatic dance or the connection to place through embodied movement, they focus on the poetics and politics of dancing, and some remind us the importance of dance in uncertain times.... Go to our e-news for more details: https://mailchi.mp/c/why-dance-matters-now-is-live-3201710

20.01.2022 The second Talking Dance: Dance Ecologies article is now online! Initiated and led by choreographer Martin Del Amo, Talking Dance: Dance Ecologies centres around a series of conversations, designed to explore more deeply the way independent choreographers work within the Australian arts sector, and how Critical Path relates to that inter-relationship. Featured in Dance Ecology Two are New South Wales-based dance and performance makers Jade Dewi Tyas Tunggal, Victoria Hunt and... Kirk Page. https://criticalpath.org.au//talking-dance-dance-ecology-/

20.01.2022 Tsuki Becoming explores why dance matters now... through some interviews and reflective writing on Butoh. The text 'Butoh in Berlin' is commissioned in partnership with Delving into Dance for the digital Interchange Festival 2019-20. Click the link below to read the text... ... https://interchange.criticalpath.org.au//selected-texts-w/ Photo by Rey KM Domurat, Uferlos Studios Berlin.

17.01.2022 Sarah Pini's film 'Shifting Perspectives' premieres on Youtube today at 6pm! 'Shifting Perspectives': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Z00y1aV-8g&feature=youtu.be 'Shifting Perspectives' is a short dance film inspired by a recently published conversation between two leaders in the field of synthetic biology (Sarah Richardson and Tom Knight) and their divergent approaches to working with microbial life: https://www.growbyginkgo.com/2020/06/23/moving-the-needle/... Shifting Perspectives seeks to open a multivocal interdisciplinary dialogue across screendance, movement and synthetic biology. This film was developed by Sarah Pini in collaboration with Jestin George and Melissa Ramos during their Responsive Research Residency at Critical Path, Sydney, in April and May 2020 https://criticalpath.org.au/program/responsive-residency-2/ The Youtube premiere intersects also with the National Science week https://www.scienceweek.net.au/

17.01.2022 We are seeking a resourceful, positive and self-motivated practitioner to join our creative team as Digital Artist-Curator. Applications close Monday 16 November, 10am AEST. Context:... Critical Path has as part of its next four-year vision made the creation of a Digital Drill a new ‘place’ where digital tools and online space can be harnessed for artistic research and development a priority. In the last 2 years CP has worked to engage with the opportunities for practice offered by digital tools and the online ‘space’. This has been focused around how a Digital Drill might create a place where research and development can happen. The Role: Working closely with the Director you will initiate, develop and line-produce digital projects for artistic research and development. This is a curatorial and a delivery role, with responsibility for the line-management of projects. Also, within the small CP team you will be asked to contribute ideas and suggestions, for delivery on others’ projects, within the existing vision and program. You will work with the director to ensure that projects meet objectives. You will contribute to strategies and plans for Critical Path including those outlined in our project and multi-year funding agreements, and any other plans that outline the key goals of the organisation. For full position description, visit: https://criticalpath.org.au/applications-open-digital-arti/

13.01.2022 Applications OPEN: Critical Path is offering 4 funded artist-led research residencies in 2021. Artists with a choreographic practice are invited to propose research projects that focus on explorations of new ideas, process or practice development without a pre-determined product outcome. The research residencies are not available for creative development of new work, though they may allow early terrain explorations or deep digging into particular ideas and concerns. Applicat...ions close 10am, Thursday 8 October 2020. For more details and how to apply, please visit: https://criticalpath.org.au//applications-open-for-2021-r/

13.01.2022 Work with us! Applications close Monday 9 November, 12pm AEST. We are seeking a culturally grounded and connected, resourceful, positive and self-motivated individual to join Critical Path’s creative team as First Nations Producer. This role includes the delivery of activity in partnership with BlakDance. Critical Path is a leading centre in Australia for choreographic enquiry, research and development.... In creating this role, Critical Path is addressing the articulated community need to build capacity and skill to be in control of the development of practice, by providing on the job training for a First Nations producer. The role is designed to ensure Critical Path is aspiring to be culturally safe and carving out a path to self-determined processes for engaging with First Nations dance practitioners. The First Nations Producer will be an important member of a small team, contributing to the organisation’s quality programming, excellent stakeholder relationships and effective management. Critical Path is committed to developing and delivering operations for cultural competency this is the responsibility of the whole organization. The role will work across the CP program, contributing to (1) shaping and delivering some specific targeted activity both in terms of ensuring Indigenous artists are able to access all our programs and projects solely for Indigenous practitioners, primarily joint project BlakForm with BlakDance (2) helping CP to put in place the structures and resources to take this work forward alongside the wider team; contributing to the development of activity across 2021 and leading into 2022. The role will work closely with, and help establish, CP’s Knowledge Circle of First Nations Australian Dance Practitioners. In addition to working directly with Critical Path and connecting with partner organisations across NSW there is likely to be the opportunity for a secondment with BlakDance. This role is only open to individuals who identify as Indigenous. For more info, visit: https://criticalpath.org.au/applications-open-first-nation/

11.01.2022 In case you missed our November e-news, you can read it below. And make sure to subscribe to our e-news for our monthly issues! https://criticalpath.org.au/

11.01.2022 Daniela Zambrano, a recipient of one of our 5-day space grants at The Drill in October, created this beautiful video during her residency. Read more below.

10.01.2022 CALL - OUT! Esplanade presents da:ns lab Co-immunity: How to Dance When We Are All Ill 9-12 JULY 2020... 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 place online with 60 participants, from 6 regional clusters across Hong Kong, Manila, New Delhi, Singapore, Sydney and Taipei. da:ns lab 2020 will likewise foster a region-wide discussion to better understand the socio-political situation in different contexts in Asia, how the arts sector is impacted by a dramatically-changed landscape, how to imagine new modus operandi for the future, and how we can chart strategies for international cooperation based on principles of knowledge sharing and mutual support. da:ns lab 2020 will take place on 9-12 July 2020 in partnership with Esplanade Theatres on the Bay. Critical Path will select 7 NSW connected artists to engage in da:ns lab 2020. The selected artists will be announced on 2nd July. Please complete the EOI by 5pm on Monday 29th June 2020. To find out more about the application details please go to link: https://criticalpath.org.au//co-immunity-how-to-dance-whe/ Photo by Twitter user @TheiKevin, Hong Kong, 2019. Text: We cannot return to the normal, because what was normal was the problem

08.01.2022 Our May 2020 e-news is now online! Visit our website to read the news... https://criticalpath.org.au/critical-path-e-news-may-2020/

08.01.2022 To conclude the Talking Dance: Dance Ecologies project, there will be a live public conversation between Martin del Amo and one artist from each ‘ecology’ on Sunday 11 October. Victoria Hunt, Katina Olsen and Rhiannon Newton will be joining Martin to discuss the project and share some further insights about their ecologies. Tune in at 5:30pm on Sunday 11 October to watch the conversation live from the comfort of your home, or click the following link to register your attendan...ce to the live event at The Drill Hall: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/.../talking-dance-dance... ** Please note that to maintain COVID-19 safety, attendance for this event will be limited to 20 people.

08.01.2022 A reminder that applications for our Digital Artist-Curator role close Monday 16 November. Full job details below! Get in touch if you have any questions. https://criticalpath.org.au/applications-open-digital-artis

01.01.2022 Shaun McLeod and Simon Ellis in 'The Currency of Play' explore why dance matters now... This text is commissioned in partnership with Delving into Dance for the digital Interchange Festival 2019-20: https://interchange.criticalpath.org.au//selected-texts-w/ Image courtesy of the artists