METAMORPHETIC STORM: Decolonial Repatterning for Artists and Activists with Victoria Hunt

An intensive performance workshop series exploring creativity as a site of transformation, radical remembering, and embodied resistance.

METAMORPHETIC STORM invites artists, activists, seekers, and sensitives to enter speculative realms and engage in relational principles through guided improvisational scores. These sessions offer space to unravel inherited patterns, reconfigure presence, and practice expanded ways of imagining and becoming.

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DATES
14 JULY - 4 AUGUST 2025
MONDAYS
6:30PM - 9PM

14 JULY, 21 JULY, 28 JULY, 4 AUGUST

LOCATION
THE DRILL HALL, CRITICAL PATH
1C NEW BEACH ROAD, DARLING POINT, NSW, 2027
GADIGAL & BIRRABIRRAGAL COUNTRY

PRICE:
SINGLE CLASS: $20 (+ booking fee)
4-WEEK PASS: $80 (+ booking fee)

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Based on the success of Victoria's workshop series in 2024, Critical Path is thrilled to invite you to a new series for 2025. The workshops will take place from 6:30PM-8:30PM followed by an optional talking circle and a cuppa till 9PM.

FROM THE ARTIST:

METAMORPHETIC STORM: Decolonial Repatterning for Artists and Activists

Connecting kin-spheres of relational understanding.

Becoming the architect of guardian and protector energies during times of collapse.
Asking how must we attune ourselves to the dynamics of embodied intelligence, dream logic, ancestral wisdom and living cycles – coexisting in radical gestures amid the malevolent forces shaping our times.

Lineages: We will engage with diverse strategies, notably IndigiQueer futurisms, Mātauranga Māori (Indigenous-Māori knowledges) and BODYWEATHER philosophy, which questions what the body is, where awareness and consciousness arise, and how the imagination functions within the practice.

This workshop series will offer processes that playfully question the bedrock of how we live our lives. Be prepared to work to rhythmic tracks that increase heart rate and temperature.

This practice delves into:

Dynamic movement training to cultivate strength, grounding, flexibility, and coordination (MB), partner and group touch-based stimulations to awaken the senses (Groundwork), and movement creation through guided image-based improvisations (Image Work).

NB: BODYWEATHER philosophy was developed by Min Tanaka and his Mai-Juku performance company in Japan. Tess de Quincey was a member of Mai-Juku (1985-91) who introduced the BODYWEATHER practice into Australia in 1989. Victoria Hunt is a founding member of De Quincey Co. 2000-2024.

ABOUT VICTORIA HUNT

Victoria Hunt's work delves into Moana-nui-a-kiwa Oceanic epistemologies. She is a dance artist, choreographer, director, dramaturg, filmmaker, and photographer. Her practice reinstates IndigiQueer futurity—grounded in Mātauranga Māori and BodyWeather—within the politics of Rematriation. A founding dancer with De Quincey Co. (2000–2024), Hunt is a leading figure in Australia’s BODYWEATHER practice.

Her highly regarded collaborative solo Copper Promises: Hinemihi Haka was nominated for several awards, including an Australian Dance Award and Helpmann Award for Best Dancer, and toured internationally to Origins Festival, In Between Time, LIFT (UK), IMPACT15, PuSh Festival, Banff Centre, National Arts Centre, Public Energy (CA). Day of Invigilation, premiered at Performance Space and toured to Ecocentrix: Indigenous Arts, Sustainable Acts (UK) and Indigenous Creators Exchange/ Scene Contemporaine Autochtone at Festival TransAmeriques (CA). Tangi Wai... the cry of water premiered at Liveworks and Dance Massive (Australia), earning nominations for an Australian Dance Award, a Helpmann Award, and three Green Room Awards—receiving the award for Best Visual Design in Dance. Her recent work, KŌIWI, commissioned by the Art Gallery of NSW and Precarious Movements: Choreography and the Museum, gave form to a 'protector' of taonga and is currently traveling the world.

Her short film TAKE received the Mana Whenua Award at the Wairoa Māori Film Festival, Best Achievement in Indigenous Filmmaking at Sydney Film Festival (2019) and has screened in six continents. She is a feature artist in the Biennale of the Arts of the Body, Image and Movement (Madrid) with curator Fiona Winning, and is the lead in two feature-length speculative fiction films by director Juan Salazar: Nightfall on Gaia (2015) and Cosmographies (2025). Victoria is the co-founder of Weather Beings, a trans/national collective with Two-Spirit Métis artist Moe Clark (Tio’tia:ke/Montreal). She is artist-in-residence at Carriageworks, Sydney (2024-25).

Lineages: Te Arawa, Ngāti Kahungunu, Rongowhakaata, English, Irish, Scottish, Norwegian. Born on Kombumerri Country (Gold Coast).

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This project is proudly supported by Critical Path.

Critical Path respectfully acknowledges the Gadigal and Birrabirragal people of the Eora Nation, the traditional owners of the land where the organisation is based.

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IMAGE ID: A spectral entity, slipstreaming through the multiverse.

IMAGE CREDIT: COSMOGRAPHIES film still; photo: Juan Salazar; and KŌIWI, commissioned by the Art Gallery of New South Wales as part of the exhibition Dreamhome: Stories of Art and Shelter, and co-commissioned by Precarious Movements: Choreography and the Museum, an ARC linkage project hosted by UNSW, Monash University Museum of Art, National Gallery of Victoria, Tate UK, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, and the Neilson Foundation, Department of Theatre and Performance Studies, University of Sydney and Marrugeku.

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