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All Quotes by author - Wayne McGregor
" Choreography and creativity - it's my matrix; let's see where we can move. "
Where
Move
Matrix
" Dancers can get to see almost everything now. When I used to go into companies to make a piece, the dancers had hardly ever seen my work. Now they can watch it on YouTube. It means they're much faster at picking up material. "
Dancers
Now
See
" 'Entity' is not about science. The process behind it may dictate the nature of the piece, but it's not like a dance about Einstein where I'm trying to convert his ideas into movement and communicate that to an audience. "
Nature
Science
Dance
" Everyone is always telling me that I must be exhausted, but I've learned how to use my time well, and that includes holidays to recharge. I always try to give myself big chunks of time to think about what the next project is going to be. "
Think
Myself
Me
" I always try to keep a little bit of space in the year to work with other people. Because I love doing musicals, films and plays - projects where I'm not in charge, where I've got somebody else telling me what to do and I have to work with their vision. "
People
Space
Vision
" I enjoy my work too much to force-feed myself with pressure. "
Pressure
Too Much
Enjoy
" If you put yourself in a place where you're having to work at understanding something, then you keep yourself awake to all possible choices. How the body will look like in the future, the ethics of the body: those are questions that really fascinate me. Let's get the dialogue going. "
Work
Ethics
Future
" I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it's important to get on and have another go. "
New
Go
Important
" I listen to music all the time, and I just choose things I like, or things that I've not used before. Sometimes I work with music that's very difficult - that I don't even particularly like, per se, but that is really complex or interesting. "
Work
Choose
Interesting
" I think it's the responsibility of a major opera house not only to cultivate debate and get people thinking, but also to be interfaced with things that challenge them. To challenge its audience and not just deliver things that they know, even though some of those things are wonderful. "
Think
Responsibility
People
" I've always been just as interested in making people think as I am in making them feel, and one of the things this scientific process allows me to do is make the audience look differently at dance. "
Process
Think
Dance
" My influences change all the time; they have to remain current, because they're the things that capture your imagination and make you want to go into the studio. "
Time
Imagination
Change
" Once I'm working on something, I don't do anything else. I'm mono-track. "
Anything
Else
Once
" Some people are fascinated by what they know, and some are fascinated by what they don't know. I'm just very interested in what's possible. "
Some People
People
Possible
" Unlike a lot of choreographers, I don't always start with the music. I often start with a visual artist, and then find music that fits the world of that visual artist. "
Artist
Then
Music
" With dance and theatre, I think people get very nervous about not knowing the right things. They feel like they've missed something, or that they're not bright enough to watch it. It's not a test. "
Test
Theatre
Think
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