Graeme Murphy

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. ”

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

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

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

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. ”

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. ”

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

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

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

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. ”