Critical Path in partnership with the Keir Foundation presents MEG STUART

Let's Not Get Used To This Place - On dramaturgies of practice as / of collaboration and cross-pollination

Meg Stuart In Conversation with Angela Conquet

WEDNESDAY
25 FEBRUARY 2026
7:30PM-8:30PM

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

FREE REGISTRATION

Choreographer, director and dancer of international renown, Meg Stuart has experimented with collaborations across fields and senses, working with her body as a site of exploration and with left-of-field collaborators to disrupt her own habits (such as composer Mieko Suzuki, theatre directors Philippe Quesne, Tim Etchells and visual artists Claudia Hill, Jean-Paul Lespagnard, Jompet Kuswidananto). Meg Stuart has built an impressively singular body of work which uses improvisation as a strategy to explore body memory and emotional states. Expanding on her latest book, Let’s Not Get Used to This Place, Meg Stuart will revisit, in conversation with dance curator Angela Conquet, what it takes to know and unknow a practice.

MEG STUART
Meg Stuart is a choreographer, director and dancer who lives and works in Berlin and Brussels. Her work is driven by experimentation and artistic cross-pollination, challenging the limits of the body and expanding our perception of reality. With her company Damaged Goods, founded in 1994, she has created over thirty productions, ranging from solos and duets to large-scale choreographies, videoworks, site-specific creations and improvisation projects. Recent creations include steal you for a moment (2024) and GLITCH WITCH (2024).

Stuart’s practice moves fluidly between dance, theatre and visual arts, sustained by long-term collaborations with artists from different disciplines. Through fictions and shifting narrative layers, she explores dance as a source of healing and a means to transform the social fabric. Improvisation plays a central role in her work, functioning as a strategy to move through physical and emotional states and the memory of them.

Alongside her stage work, Stuart directs and choreographs video projects, often exploring the presence of the body in relation to space and landscape. She regularly shares her knowledge through workshops and master classes, and in 2025 initiated Mystery School, an experimental studies programme for performing artists. Her work has been widely recognised, including the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement (Biennale di Venezia, 2018) and a Guggenheim Fellowship (2023).

https://www.damagedgoods.be/

ANGELA CONQUET
Angela Conquet is an independent dance curator, researcher, writer and translator, working between Europe and Australia. She is currently the coordinator of the Lyon Dance Biennale FORUM program. Previously, she was Artistic Director of Dancehouse in Melbourne from 2011 to 2020, and the Guest Curator of Dance in Vancouver Festival in 2021. Before relocating to Australia in 2011, she was leading the dance artist in residence programs at Mains d’oeuvres in Paris. She has just finalised her doctoral thesis at the University of Melbourne/ UGA Grenoble with a focus on dance-specific curatorial practices, where she also lectures in Arts Management.

This program is made possible with the generous support of the Keir Foundation and in collaboration with The Farm.

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 CREDIT: Davis Freeman, Kristof Van Boven, Maria F. Scaroni, Anja Müller and Dragana Bulut in Built to Last, Meg Stuart | Damaged Goods, photo by © Eva Würdinger.

IMAGE ID: An image of a group of five people colourfully dressed, dancing on a stage. The person in the centre of the group has their upper back arched, head back, arms outstretched, and one foot resting on the other lower leg, almost like a bird.

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