Graeme Murphy Quotes

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• And currently, there are four to five new works in the pipeline for upcoming celebrations such as the Sydney 2000 Olympics, Australian Federation, my 50th…
• I look at the dancers and I get the inspiration for the work from them.
• I always figure I have this tree and there's always some green fruit that's not ready to pick or blossoms that are ready to flower;…
• And dance is wonderful because dance is so immediate.
• For me it was really important to get the essence out of the music for the story and not, sort of, press the music into…
• I actually build my dreams around the dancers I've got in my company.
• I think it requires a bit of honesty, Swan Lake.
• I'm interested in people who can take the movement somewhere.
• Mostly, I'm in the very enviable position that no one dictates what I do.
• I wanted to give people - which is fairly bizarre considering my whole life is contemporary dance really - I wanted to give people a…
• If the year 2000 can help us move into the future, that's fine, but I am afraid that people see it as a full stop…
• No one was creating and I always wanted to be created on.
• Normally our season is seven weeks in the Drama Theatre and four weeks in the Opera Theater.
• SDC has a great reputation for putting live music on stage.
• Sydney is a very good market for us - we have a very strong following here.
• There's a line of dancers waiting to get into Sydney Dance Company.
• I'm in the position to pick the cream of the crop.
• I'm not interested in a group of people with some sort of incredible homogeny,a group that can do the movement I want. I'm interested in…
• It's the emotional trigger points that are important to me because I know if I could believe in the characters and try and imagine how…
• Some are less giving, others are more reticent and you actually have to create for them. Others have within them the next step.

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