Graeme Lloyd Murphy Quotes

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

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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.

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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.

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• We also tour nationally and internationally.

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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• It’s not a company of exponents of my style.

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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.

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• I’m thrilled at the moment because our audiences, you know, they… the demographic is 50% male.

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

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

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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.

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• I think the Olympics could help us reach more people.

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

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• I mean, I think in the early days we were pretty… pretty British in our entertainment leads.

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

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Graeme Lloyd Murphy (28)

Birth:	2nd November, 1950
Nationality:	Australian
Profession:	Choreographer, Dancer

About

Graeme Lloyd Murphy was born in Melbourne, Australia. He 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. He began his career as a student at the Australian Ballet School at the age of fourteen. In 1968 he became a dancer with the Australian Ballet where he had opportunities to choreograph. In 2001, he was awarded the Centenary Medal for "service to the development of dance in Australia and Tasmania".

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