Exit interview: Angela Conquet, Dancehouse

After eight years as Artistic Director, Angela Conquet has moved on from Dancehouse. Here she reflects on challenges, triumphs and the opportunity for new thinking.

Looking back on her eight years at Dancehouse, Melbourne’s centre of independent contemporary dance, Angela Conquet said she remains deeply proud of the organisation’s flexibility, responsiveness and function.

‘Dancehouse is such a nimble organisation and it has as its core founding principles the idea that everything starts and ends with the artist,’ Conquet told ArtsHub.

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Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in 2020. In 2021 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association. Most recently, Richard received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts