On the move: latest sector appointments

New Chairs and CEOs, departing arts leaders and more in this week’s round-up of arts sector comings and goings.
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New Chair for The Australian Ballet

The Australian Ballet has announced that highly regarded business leader Richard Dammery will succeed Craig Dunn as Chair in the lead-up to the company’s annual general meeting in May 2024.

Dunn was appointed as a member of The Australian Ballet Board in 2014 before becoming Chair in 2015.

‘The Melbourne Arts Precinct Transformation (MAPT) is an amazing cultural infrastructure project, and I commend the Victorian Government for its vision. For the Ballet, it creates some short-term challenges, as well as longer-term opportunities given our presence at the centre of the new precinct. I look forward to being part of positioning the Ballet for an even brighter future,’ he added.

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Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's former 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 2019 Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in early 2020. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association in 2021, and a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Photo: Fiona Hamilton. Follow Richard on Bluesky @richardthewatts.bsky.social and Instagram @richard.l.watts