I look at the dancers and I get the inspiration for the work from them. Graeme Murphy More Quotes by Graeme Murphy More Quotes From Graeme Murphy I'm not interested in a group of people with some sort of incredible homogeny,a group that can do the movement I want. I'm interested in people whocan take the movement somewhere. Graeme Murphy groups dance people 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. Graeme Murphy important essence art I'm in the position to pick the cream of the crop. Graeme Murphy cream-of-the-crop crops position Mostly, I'm in the very enviable position that no one dictates what I do. Graeme Murphy position 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. Graeme Murphy white giving people 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. Graeme Murphy people years moving No one was creating and I always wanted to be created on. Graeme Murphy creating wanted Normally our season is seven weeks in the Drama Theatre and four weeks in the Opera Theater. Graeme Murphy four theatre drama SDC has a great reputation for putting live music on stage. Graeme Murphy live-music reputation stage Sydney is a very good market for us - we have a very strong following here. Graeme Murphy very-good following strong I'm interested in people who can take the movement somewhere. Graeme Murphy movement people I think it requires a bit of honesty, Swan Lake. Graeme Murphy honesty lakes thinking I actually build my dreams around the dancers I've got in my company. Graeme Murphy dancer dream art And dance is wonderful because dance is so immediate. Graeme Murphy wonderful art 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. Graeme Murphy green flower tree 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. Graeme Murphy australia-day 50th-birthday anniversary Some are less giving, others are more reticent and you actually have to create for them. Others have within them the next step. Graeme Murphy next-steps dance giving 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. Graeme Murphy dance believe art There's a line of dancers waiting to get into Sydney Dance Company. Graeme Murphy dancer lines waiting I mean, I think in the early days we were pretty... pretty British in our entertainment leads. Graeme Murphy pretty think entertainment mean
