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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 Birthday, and Sydney Dance Company's 25th Anniversary. "
Anniversary
Dance
Company
" And dance is wonderful because dance is so immediate. "
Immediate
Because
Wonderful
" But I also wanted to give them an intelligent emotional journey, without having to suspend reality - to be able to look at those characters and see reasons for the relationships and why what happens happens. "
Look
Reality
Relationships
" Dance is so joyous. "
Dance
Joyous
" 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 the service of the whimsical telling of it. "
Important
Me
Music
" I actually build my dreams around the dancers I've got in my company. "
Got
Build
Dreams
" 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; there are always some ready to drop off too. "
Fruit
Flower
Green
" I don't think people we'll miss the fact that SDC is way up there and that our profile is high. "
Profile
Think
Fact
" 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 and that one can take a big breath afterwards - you can't. "
You
I Am
Stop
" I look at the dancers and I get the inspiration for the work from them. "
Inspiration
Work
Look
" I mean, I think in the early days we were pretty... pretty British in our entertainment leads. "
Entertainment
Mean
Think
" I'm interested in people who can take the movement somewhere. "
People
Movement
Who
" I'm in the position to pick the cream of the crop. "
Position
Cream
Crop
" I'm thrilled at the moment because our audiences, you know, they... the demographic is 50% male. "
Moment
Know
You
" I think it requires a bit of honesty, Swan Lake. "
Bit
Swan
Think
" I think the Olympics could help us reach more people. "
Us
More
People
" It's not a company of exponents of my style. "
Style
Company
" 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 they felt then I'd be able to do something quite honest. "
Important
Me
Try
" I wanted to give people - which is fairly bizarre considering my whole life is contemporary dance really - I wanted to give people a really fulfilling sense that they had seen a white classical ballet - in a very pure form. "
Pure
White
People
" Mostly, I'm in the very enviable position that no one dictates what I do. "
Dictates
Mostly
Position
" No one was creating and I always wanted to be created on. "
Creating
Wanted
Always
" Normally our season is seven weeks in the Drama Theatre and four weeks in the Opera Theater. "
Our
Opera
Four
" SDC has a great reputation for putting live music on stage. "
Music
Stage
Reputation
" Sydney is a very good market for us - we have a very strong following here. "
Strong
Sydney
Market
" There's a line of dancers waiting to get into Sydney Dance Company. "
Company
Waiting
Dance
" We also tour nationally and internationally. "
Also
Internationally
Tour
" We can't afford big symphonies but we commission works that sound rich and symphonic because of the nature of the instrumentation and the people we work with. "
Big
Nature
Sound
" We moved, and there was a golden era in the '40s when we were so conscious of who we were as Australians. "
Era
Australians
Conscious
" Yes, Carl Vine stuck around. He's now number one composer for choreography. "
Vine
Now
Stuck
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