Angela Conquet is French-Australian dance curator, author, editor, researcher, translator and arts leader living between Melbourne and Paris. Her career spans three continents, working across and within a multiplicity of disciplines, contexts, and territories.

Her specific expertise lies in connecting artists’ ideas with current social issues and diverse communities of thought. More recently, she was Artistic Director of Dancehouse Melbourne, Guest curator of Dance in Vancouver and is currently co-curator and coordinator of Lyon Dance Biennale’s FORUM program.

She is in her final stages of completing her PhD at the University of Melbourne/ University of Grenoble and her writings have been published in a variety of professional and scholarly publications.

She considers art and culture as a socio-political practice to activate imagination, creativity, and change.