CRITICAL PATH IS A RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTRE FOR DANCERS AND CHOREOGRAPHERS IN NSW.
Based at The Drill, a large studio on the harbour in central Sydney, it brings together Australian and international artists in a laboratory environment where risk taking, play and experimentation are encouraged.
Critical Path’s program includes:
• Space and support for choreographers undertaking research; • Master classes with artists from dance and other disciplines; • Intensive workshops and laboratories; and • Opportunities for dancers to share practice and for choreographers to build new relationships with peers.
The Centre seeks to raise the profile of contemporary dance in NSW by seeding increased activity, developing new networks and stimulating debate and critical appreciation of dance. Best practice in artistic research is incorporated into a responsive, diverse program which connects to the city, the state, the country and the wider world through artists and their associates.
hancock and kelly
Artists in exchange with hancock & kelly Richard Hancock and Traci Kelly with Julie Vulcan, Nalina Wait, George Khut, Deb Pollard As inter-disciplinary artists, the only 'constants' that we have had
are our own bodies. We are interested in them as energetic storage
houses. As neuro-highways for dead letters. As bio-hazards for fixed
identities.We became interested in how the body acts as a repository for memory
and, in turn, how the body is produced by these memories. Beyond that,
we became interested in the collective memory, the body at large. We
asked one another for memories. We turned to our audiences. We were
willing to beg, borrow, and steal. We looked for new ways to share, to
kiss and tell, to take one body sliced and one body whole, remove a
memory with the precision of a surgeon and implant: a hybrid now...
Daghdha Dance Company lecture series.
LECTURE 3 “Social Choreography/Social Dreaming” Led by Steve Valk with Michael Klien and Elena Giannotti This
lecture outlines ideas behind the notion of 'Social Choreography',
drawing from various sources such as Bateson, Beuys, Derrida, Badiou,
Hoffmeyer and Keeney. Presenting a number of projects that have been
taking place over the past ten years (including work by William
Forsythe, Steve Valk, Heiner Blum, Davide Terlingo, Michael Klien a.o.)
Valk and Klien present the contextual framework for a new thinking and
engagement within the social sphere.
Screen / Dance / Innovation / Genre
What are the possible innovations between dance and the moving image?
Are they structural possibilities such as narrative structures, musical
structures, associative structures, investigations into form or the
manipulations of new technologies?
Speakers Clare Stewart - Executive Director Sydney Film Festival (chair) Erin Brannigan - Curator/director ReelDance - independent curator & writer. Jennifer McLachlan – Director of Dance at the Australia Council for the Arts Karen Pearlman - AFTRS - Physical TV
