CRITICAL PRACTICE 2025 // with Louie Wisby

Translating anatomies

Translating anatomies is a four-week Critical Practice series led by Louie Wisby.

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DATES

17 NOVEMBER – 8 DECEMBER 2025
MONDAYS
6:30PM - 8:30PM

17 NOV, 24 NOV, 1 DEC, 8 DEC

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

PRICE:
SINGLE CLASS: $25
4-WEEK PASS: $80

Discounted option for low-income participants:

SINGLE CLASS: $15
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FROM THE ARTIST

This research is an inquiry into how the concepts we have of our bodies inform the ways that we move them. Using techniques from and drawing on physical experiences of kinesiology and embodied anatomy, this workshop will explore how Chinese Medicine frameworks of the body can be integrated into existing dancing kinespheres and ways of moving and being moved.

I am curious about how diversifying the imagined and theoretical frameworks we use to think about our bodies can expand our physical practices and our experiences of our bodies. This may have implications for how we move through the world and experience pain and pleasure, inevitably influencing the dances we may make.

ABOUT LOUIE WISBY

Louie Wisby is a physical artist who was born in Naarm and lives on Gadigal land in Sydney. Louie graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2018. Since then she has pursued the creation of her own work and others. She has enjoyed working with Phillip Adams (Glory, Prelude), Jo Lloyd (Garden Dance, Bang Stop, FM:Air, Paris Was Yesterday), Geoffrey Watson (Rachael Wisby), Lee Serle (Time Portrait), Natalie Abbott (Re:Purpose the Mvmt), Nana Biluš Abaffy (A Bestiary of Unimaginable Animals) and Yuiko Masukawa (3).Her work has been presented by Temperance Hall (Please Do Not Move, Sybylla), Lucy Guerin Inc (Roses), The University of Melbourne (The Curtain Drops (The Jig is Up)) and Dance House (Judy and Me).

Louie’s choreographies approach dancing and the moving body as an intelligent interface for live creation. She is most interested in refining the dancing body as a system that is responsive to energy and the environment. These interests led her to study Traditional Chinese medicine as a systematic grounding for her explorations.
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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: Louie Wisby, photo by Jeff Busby, image edited by Nasim Patel.

IMAGE CREDIT: Photo of a person dancing with an anatomical illustration of a human's internal organs attached to the person's clothed torso.