08/10/2026
JOIN US THIS SATURDAY 4PM
The incredible artists Rosalind Crisp (dance) & Deborah May (video) will share seedlings of new DIRt work.
In 2017 Ros returned to Australia after 15 years in Paris to find the majestic forests she grew up in destroyed. She initiated DIRt (Dance In Regional disasTer zones) in Orbost (VIC) to explore how dance and collaborative arts practice might respond to our unfolding extinction crisis. DIRt performances have been given in sites from ruined forest to the Sydney Opera House.
Ros writes: 'DIRt has primarily been an exploration of choreography’s capacity to enter into dialogue with this place, not to re-present it or impose another narrative on it, but to be profoundly ‘undone’ by it.
DIRt has utterly reshaped my Australian choreographic voice.'
A recent shift from the grief-stricken to the absurd is angling Ros away from the abject towards the forgotten, discarded sites left over by man where fragments of nature persist and may even be thriving (and winking at Gilles Clément.)
10 OCTOBER 2026
SATURDAY 4PM
The Drill Hall, Critical Path
1c New Beach Road Darling Point NSW 2027
Gadigal & Birrabirragal Country
Pay what you can $5 – $15 (+ booking fee)
👉 Link in our bio
This sharing is the first in a series of a new Critical Path initiative called SeeDance.
This event is proudly supported by the Woollahra Municipal Council’s Cultural Grants Program Woollahra Council and Omeo Dance Inc.
Video credit: DIRt, Rosalind Crisp, video still by Deborah May, 2026.
Image description: An image of a person dancing amidst the destruction of a recently logged forest in East Gippsland.
Critical Path respectfully acknowledges the Gadigal and Birrabirragal people of the Eora Nation, the traditional owners of the land where the organisation is based.
