Graeme Murphy Quotes

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Graeme Murphy

Profession : Dancer

Birth : November 2, 1950

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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I'm in the position to pick the cream of the crop.

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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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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 actually build my dreams around the dancers I've got in my company.

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I mean, I think in the early days we were pretty... pretty British in our entertainment leads.

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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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And dance is wonderful because dance is so immediate.

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I'm thrilled at the moment because our audiences, you know, they... the demographic is 50% male.

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Dance is so joyous.

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Sydney is a very good market for us - we have a very strong following here.

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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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We also tour nationally and internationally.

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Mostly, I'm in the very enviable position that no one dictates what I do.

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I look at the dancers and I get the inspiration for the work from them.

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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.

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There's a line of dancers waiting to get into Sydney Dance Company.

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I'm interested in people who can take the movement somewhere.

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It's not a company of exponents of my style.

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No one was creating and I always wanted to be created on.

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