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" I don't think people we'll miss the fact that SDC is way up there and that our profile is high. "
Graeme Murphy
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" No one was creating and I always wanted to be created on. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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" I actually build my dreams around the dancers I've got in my company. "
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" It's not a company of exponents of my style. "
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" Mostly, I'm in the very enviable position that no one dictates what I do. "
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" We moved, and there was a golden era in the '40s when we were so conscious of who we were as Australians. "
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" Sydney is a very good market for us - we have a very strong following here. "
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" I think it requires a bit of honesty, Swan Lake. "
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" 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. "
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" I think the Olympics could help us reach more people. "
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People
" I'm interested in people who can take the movement somewhere. "
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" 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. "
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" Normally our season is seven weeks in the Drama Theatre and four weeks in the Opera Theater. "
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Opera
Four
" Yes, Carl Vine stuck around. He's now number one composer for choreography. "
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Now
Stuck
" I'm in the position to pick the cream of the crop. "
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" I look at the dancers and I get the inspiration for the work from them. "
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Work
Look
" And dance is wonderful because dance is so immediate. "
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Because
Wonderful
" I'm thrilled at the moment because our audiences, you know, they... the demographic is 50% male. "
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Know
You
" We also tour nationally and internationally. "
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" 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. "
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" Dance is so joyous. "
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" 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. "
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White
People
" There's a line of dancers waiting to get into Sydney Dance Company. "
Graeme Murphy
Company
Waiting
Dance
" 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. "
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" SDC has a great reputation for putting live music on stage. "
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