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Graeme Murphy [1950-0] Australian

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Dancer, Choreographer

Graeme Lloyd Murphy AO is an Australian dance choreographer. Together with his fellow dancer Janet Vernon, he guided Sydney Dance Company to become one of Australia's most successful and well-known dance companies.

Anniversary, Birthday, Dreams

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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.	Anniversary, Birthday	101
I think it requires a bit of honesty, Swan Lake.		102
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.		103
I look at the dancers and I get the inspiration for the work from them.		104
We moved, and there was a golden era in the '40s when we were so conscious of who we were as Australians.		105
And dance is wonderful because dance is so immediate.		106
Dance is so joyous.		107
I actually build my dreams around the dancers I've got in my company.	Dreams	108
There's a line of dancers waiting to get into Sydney Dance Company.		109
It's not a company of exponents of my style.		110
No one was creating and I always wanted to be created on.		111
SDC has a great reputation for putting live music on stage.		112
I mean, I think in the early days we were pretty... pretty British in our entertainment leads.		113
I'm thrilled at the moment because our audiences, you know, they... the demographic is 50% male.		114
Sydney is a very good market for us - we have a very strong following here.		115
Normally our season is seven weeks in the Drama Theatre and four weeks in the Opera Theater.		116
We also tour nationally and internationally.		117
Mostly, I'm in the very enviable position that no one dictates what I do.		118
I'm in the position to pick the cream of the crop.		119
I'm interested in people who can take the movement somewhere.		120
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.		121
Yes, Carl Vine stuck around. He's now number one composer for choreography.		122
I think the Olympics could help us reach more people.		123
I don't think people we'll miss the fact that SDC is way up there and that our profile is high.		124
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.		125
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.		126
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.		201
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.		202
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.		203

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