Graeme Murphy Quotes

• 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

  Dance, People, Groups

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• And dance is wonderful because dance is so immediate.

  Graeme Murphy

  Art, Wonderful

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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.

  Graeme Murphy

  Art, Essence, Important

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

  Graeme Murphy

  Crops, Cream Of The Crop, Position

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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.

  Graeme Murphy

  White, People, Giving

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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.

  Graeme Murphy

  Moving, Years, People

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

  Graeme Murphy

  Creating, Wanted

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• Normally our season is seven weeks in the Drama Theatre and four weeks in the Opera Theater.

  Graeme Murphy

  Drama, Theatre, Four

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

  Graeme Murphy

  Reputation, Stage, Live Music

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

  Graeme Murphy

  Strong, Very Good, Following

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

  Graeme Murphy

  Position

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

  Graeme Murphy

  People, Movement

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• I think it requires a bit of honesty, Swan Lake.

  Graeme Murphy

  Honesty, Thinking, Lakes

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

  Graeme Murphy

  Dream, Art, Dancer

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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.

  Graeme Murphy

  Flower, Tree, Green

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

  Graeme Murphy

  Art, Inspiration, Dancer

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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.

  Graeme Murphy

  Anniversary, Australia Day, 50th Birthday

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• 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

  Dance, Giving, Next Steps

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• 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, Art, Believe

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

  Graeme Murphy

  Dancer, Waiting, Lines

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