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Filling big shoes: replacing a founding Artistic Director

How do you replace someone whose personality, artistry and aesthetic sensibility have come to define a company’s creative output to date?

15 Sep 2014

Richard Watts

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Image: Force Majeure’s Not in a Million Years. Photo: Heidrun Löhr.

Kate Champion’s recent announcement that she would be stepping down as Artistic Director of Force Majeure (the acclaimed dance/theatre company she founded in 2002) in the new year, may have caught some in the industry by surprise, but no doubt also has many polishing their CVs in anticipation of stepping into the position.

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Richard Watts

Richard Watts is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM, and serves as the Chair of La Mama Theatre's volunteer Committee of Management. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, and was awarded the status of Melbourne Fringe Living Legend in 2017. In 2020 he was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize. Most recently, Richard was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Green Room Awards Association in June 2021. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts