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" American ballet... is ultimately an evolutionary art form, requiring many voices to creatively carry forward. "
Art
Ballet
Carry
" Balanchine is the number one influence for me. His work was really musically driven. He and Jerome Robbins were the ones who really showed me that dance could be about the inner relation between movement and music. When I was a student first seeing their work, I was like, 'Oh, this is a thing?' "
Dance
Influence
Me
" Balanchine was just able to strike the balance between literal narrative and abstract dance. "
Abstract
Dance
Narrative
" Ballet dancers are among the greatest living athletes. "
Dancers
Among
Living
" Ballet is a classically based art form, so it comes with a certain set of rules, at least to start with; then it's about how far you want to push from there. "
Push
Start
Rules
" Chicago is amazing. "
Chicago
Amazing
" For me, the choreography always comes from the music. "
Music
Me
Choreography
" George Balanchine is my role model because his work is so varied. You can see two ballets of his and not even realize that they are by the same choreographer. "
Work
You
Two
" I always feel that the mark of a good ballet is that when you see it more than once, you get more out of it. "
You
Feel
Ballet
" I feel like there is a different, new energy when I collaborate with a living artist, whether it be a composer, designer, lighting designer. I love that process. "
Process
Artist
Energy
" If I get a commission, it's like a flood of creative thought and energy. "
Flood
Like
Thought
" I grew up going on vacations with my family to New York every summer, and it's something that I always looked forward to. They'd take me to theater and shows and interesting restaurants, so I was genuinely really excited to move there. "
Me
New York
Family
" I like graceful and elegant partnering that gives an illusion of ease instead of emphasizing difficulty. I don't want to make something 'contemporary' or 'trendy,' because ballet doesn't progress on one track: it can branch out in many directions, and as Balanchine showed, there's always room for pure classicism and more subtle alterations of it. "
Pure
Progress
Illusion
" I love seeing New York City Ballet from the fourth ring, just seeing the architecture of how these bodies move from above. "
City
Architecture
Love
" I'm always interested in linking dance to mundane behavior that everyone can relate to. "
Always
Dance
Behavior
" I'm not a very good dancer. My feet don't point far enough; my extension is embarrassing. Dance, for me, has been hard because it's a strive for perfection. "
Good
Dance
Me
" I'm really interested in working with groups. It's a very simple thing for me, and if I'm given the option to work with two people or 10 or 20 people, I'm going to take 10 or 20. I just think there's so much more I can do with that. "
Me
I Can
Work
" I'm trying to create ballets that I would enjoy seeing. "
Enjoy
Seeing
Trying
" I never intended to dance in my own work, but we did what had to be done. "
My Own
Never
Done
" I really enjoyed watching a ballerina named Denise Dabrowski who used to dance at California Ballet. She was a beautiful ballerina and role model for a lot of young dancers. "
Beautiful
Dance
Role Model
" I think ballet has a bad reputation of being stuffy and depleted. "
Think
Reputation
I Think
" I think ballet is pretty open about what music is used, actually. "
Open
Music
Ballet
" I think it's interesting for people to be exposed to ballet in areas they wouldn't necessarily expect to see it. "
Ballet
Interesting
Think
" I think that story ballets, as great as they might sell, they're a really dated and awkward medium to tell stories through. I think there needs to be an updated or different approach to storytelling in dance. There needs to be less of a separation between the storytelling and the dancing. "
Dancing
Dance
Think
" I try and create choreography that's in conversation with the music that the audience is hearing. "
Music
Audience
Conversation
" It's amazing what a resource modern technology is now for making ballets, and I film my rehearsals almost every day. "
Technology
Amazing
Day
" It's expensive to get studio space and dancers. My whole first three years, I was sneaking around in the studios and getting kicked out of them. It was kind of depressing. "
Space
Three
Dancers
" It's nice to have the support and infrastructure to do what I want creatively. That's kind of a rare thing to find. "
Want
Support
Nice
" It's probably what I'm most interested in as a choreographer: how I can alter and shift and develop the structure of a piece and of the space. "
Most
Shift
Space
" It's time for there to be roles in the ballet where two men can fall in love, and a woman can lead a company of 20 dancers that include both men and women. "
Love
Women
Fall
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