Graeme Murphy Quotes

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Graeme Murphy

Profession : Dancer

Birth : November 2, 1950

SDC has a great reputation for putting live music on stage.

Graeme Murphy

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.

Graeme Murphy

Yes, Carl Vine stuck around. He's now number one composer for choreography.

Graeme Murphy

I think the Olympics could help us reach more people.

Graeme Murphy

I don't think people we'll miss the fact that SDC is way up there and that our profile is high.

Graeme Murphy

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

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

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