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" There is something very cyclical about the way fashion designers work. They work and work and work, the collection is finally shown, and after those 15 minutes, they must start over from the beginning. This is not unlike the way I work creating new dances. "

Justin Peck

Work

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Fashion

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Justin Peck

Chicago

Amazing

" I'm always interested in linking dance to mundane behavior that everyone can relate to. "

" It's amazing what a resource modern technology is now for making ballets, and I film my rehearsals almost every day. "

" I've always thought of the process of creating ballets as being this kind of team effort. It's not like being a painter, where you have your paint, and you have canvas, and you just go at it. I'm working with these living, breathing, functioning human beings, and they have their own thoughts and ideas about what works well movement-wise. "

" When I'm making a new ballet, I usually read through the score a little bit, and then I have to go back and translate or transcribe all the counts for dancers because the way that you hear it is completely different from the way the musicians read and play it. "

" It's nice to have the support and infrastructure to do what I want creatively. That's kind of a rare thing to find. "

" I never intended to dance in my own work, but we did what had to be done. "

" There needs to be more encouragement and support for women - at an impressionable age - to explore that choreographic side of their brains. "

" If I get a commission, it's like a flood of creative thought and energy. "

Justin Peck

Flood

Thought

" When I saw 'Hamilton,' there was so much information so fast, I had to keep up with it. I find that quality in art exhilarating. "

" There's an innate feeling when I choreograph in juxtaposition to how I feel as a dancer. When I choreograph, I never really look into the mirror. But as dancers, we always check ourselves in the mirror. I do feel that when I choreograph, I am making a dance on my own body. Much of it is my own response to the music. "

" 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. "

Justin Peck

New York

Family

" There is a clearing for new creative thought in choreography. I don't feel intimidated; there is a lot I can do that is new or innovative or different. "

" It's very difficult to switch back and forth between running rehearsals and then stepping in to dance in rehearsals as a dancer. Just to switch hats in an instant can be a little bit jarring, mostly physically, on the body. "

" Pressure feels sort of normal to me. "

Justin Peck

Normal

Sort

" 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. "

" I think it's interesting for people to be exposed to ballet in areas they wouldn't necessarily expect to see it. "

" 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. "

Justin Peck

I Can

Work

" I think ballet is pretty open about what music is used, actually. "

" 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. "

" My movement is usually about finding the balance between artistry, athleticism, and musicality. It always originates with a classical basis and expands outwards from that platform. "

" I'm trying to create ballets that I would enjoy seeing. "

" 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?' "

Justin Peck

Dance

Influence

" The ballet world, it's a crazy world. "

" The future of ballet is really in the hands of the creators, so if it's something that interests them to push the envelope with gender roles, then I think it will change. But if that's not of interest to a dance-maker, if their interest is to sort of preserve the way things have been done for the past 200 years, then nothing is going to change. "

" I would love to work with Joanna Newsom on a ballet. I think that would be amazing. She has a gift for orchestrating and composing, and I think she would be really engaging to work with. "

" I try and create choreography that's in conversation with the music that the audience is hearing. "

" My grandfather James Peck was a civil rights activist. "

" American ballet... is ultimately an evolutionary art form, requiring many voices to creatively carry forward. "

" I've always felt that Balanchine is my ultimate teacher. I learn the most from observing his work and also dancing in it. "