Critical Path
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CRITICAL DIALOGUES #15: TIME
Contributions by Kay Armstrong, Nareeporn Vachananda, Rhiannon Newton, el waddingham, Natalie Quan Yau Tso, Laura Osweiler, as well as the transcript of the 2023 March Dance conversation ‘What happens in the pause?’ and a review of Angela Goh’s ‘Axe Arc Echo’.
From essays and academic texts to performance scripts and instructional scores, these works are written by dancers and movement-artists acutely attuned to time from corporeal perspective. They contemplate the relationship between human-time and the geological scale of time that surrounds them, the impact of gravity on one’s perception of time, the relationship between urgency and intergenerational trauma, the way that time (via memory) leaves residues within the body, the dizzying affect of epic regularity, and the value of pause in circumventing habits and accessing new possibilities.
Edited by Ira Ferris
Graphic design by Zoe Baumgartner
EOI OPEN: Research Room Residency
Applications for the 2nd term of the 2024 Research Room residencies are now open.
Research Room Residencies are non-financial residencies designed to support project development and scholarly research by offering up to two months of office space and equipment, at the Drill.
A small study room with windows facing the Sydney Harbour, the Research Room is a place where you can spend dedicated time gathering materials for your new choreographic project, or reflecting on and archiving a recently completed one.
Second term residencies are available between 1 July and 15 December 2024, for a minimum of two weeks up to two months.
APPLICATIONS CLOSE: midnight AEST Sunday 2 June 2024
2024 ECR: Jessie Rose McCall
Critical Path, with Performance Space, is thrilled to announce Jessie Rose McCall as the recipient of the 2024 Experimental Choreographic Residency.
Based in Tāmaki Makaurau, New Zealand, Jessie is a pākehā movement artist whose choreographic practice searches for unexpected modes of queering – how might we generate newness in uncanny and life-giving ways, through acts of disruption?
Jessie will be in the Drill Hall from 17 to 30 June engaging with the research for ‘Shred Event’ – a new multimedia performance work that queries what needs to be destroyed to make way for the new.
In this process, Jessie will collaborate with fellow movement practitioner Sofia McIntyre and 2yr old Marcel Ngahuia Ziogas-McCall.
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