Quotes by Graeme Murphy - Page 1

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 / Choreographer
Art
Dance
Believe
Character
If I Could
Believe Me Important
Trigger
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Dance is so joyous.
Graeme Murphy / Choreographer
Dance
Joyous
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We also tour nationally and internationally.
Graeme Murphy / Choreographer
Internationally
Tour
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I think it requires a bit of honesty, Swan Lake.
Graeme Murphy / Choreographer
Honesty
Lakes
Thinking
Lake
Requires
Swan
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I'm in the position to pick the cream of the crop.
Graeme Murphy / Choreographer
Cream
Cream Of The Crop
Crops
Position
Crop
Pick
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And dance is wonderful because dance is so immediate.
Graeme Murphy / Choreographer
Art
Dance
Wonderful
Immediate
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I think the Olympics could help us reach more people.
Graeme Murphy / Choreographer
Olympics
People Help More
More People
Reach
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No one was creating and I always wanted to be created on.
Graeme Murphy / Choreographer
Creating
Wanted
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SDC has a great reputation for putting live music on stage.
Graeme Murphy / Choreographer
Live Music
Reputation
Stage
Music Great Live
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I'm interested in people who can take the movement somewhere.
Graeme Murphy / Choreographer
Movement
People
Somewhere
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There's a line of dancers waiting to get into Sydney Dance Company.
Graeme Murphy / Choreographer
Dance
Dancer
Lines
Sydney
Waiting
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I actually build my dreams around the dancers I've got in my company.
Graeme Murphy / Choreographer
Art
Dream
Dancer
Dancers
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I look at the dancers and I get the inspiration for the work from them.
Graeme Murphy / Choreographer
Art
Dancer
Inspiration
Dancers
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Mostly, I'm in the very enviable position that no one dictates what I do.
Graeme Murphy / Choreographer
Dictates
Enviable
Mostly
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Yes, Carl Vine stuck around. He's now number one composer for choreography.
Graeme Murphy / Choreographer
Choreography
Composer
Stuck
Number
Vine
Yes
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Sydney is a very good market for us - we have a very strong following here.
Graeme Murphy / Choreographer
Following
Strong
Sydney
Very Good
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Normally our season is seven weeks in the Drama Theatre and four weeks in the Opera Theater.
Graeme Murphy / Choreographer
Drama
Four
Opera
Theater
Theatre
Normally
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I mean, I think in the early days we were pretty... pretty British in our entertainment leads.
Graeme Murphy / Choreographer
British
Early Days
Leads
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I don't think people we'll miss the fact that SDC is way up there and that our profile is high.
Graeme Murphy / Choreographer
Profile
Miss
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I'm thrilled at the moment because our audiences, you know, they... the demographic is 50% male.
Graeme Murphy / Choreographer
Male
Audiences
Demographic
Thrilled
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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.
Graeme Murphy / Choreographer
Conscious
Golden
Moved
Australians
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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 / Choreographer
Dance
Giving
Next
Next Steps
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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 / Choreographer
Instrumentation
Afford
Commission
Symphonies
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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 / Choreographer
Art
Essence
Important
Whimsical
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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 / Choreographer
Moving
People
Years
Afterwards
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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 / Choreographer
Flower
Fruit
Green
Ready
Tree
Blossoms
Drop
Pick
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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 / Choreographer
Dance
Groups
Movement
People
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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.
Graeme Murphy / Choreographer
Journey
Intelligent
Reasons
Relationships
Suspend
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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 / Choreographer
50th Birthday
Anniversary
Birthday
Dance
Smile
Australia Day
Australian
Federation
Four
Olympics
Pipeline
Sydney
Currently
Celebrations
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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 / Choreographer
Dance
Ballet
Bizarre
Considering
Fulfilling
Giving
People
Pure
White
Fairly
Classical
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