Graeme Murphy is a famous Dancer from Australia, he/she is 74 years old and still alive, born November 2, 1950.
Zodiac:
He/she is born under the zodiac scorpio, who is known for Transient, Self-Willed, Purposeful, Unyielding.
Our collection contains 29 quotes who is written / told by Graeme.
29 Famous quotes by Graeme Murphy
"There's a line of dancers waiting to get into Sydney Dance Company"
"Normally our season is seven weeks in the Drama Theatre and four weeks in the Opera Theater"
"I'm thrilled at the moment because our audiences, you know, they... the demographic is 50% male"
"I'm in the position to pick the cream of the crop"
"I mean, I think in the early days we were pretty... pretty British in our entertainment leads"
"I look at the dancers and I get the inspiration for the work from them"
"I don't think people we'll miss the fact that SDC is way up there and that our profile is high"
"We moved, and there was a golden era in the '40s when we were so conscious of who we were as Australians"
"We also tour nationally and internationally"
"SDC has a great reputation for putting live music on stage"
"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"
"I actually build my dreams around the dancers I've got in my 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"
"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"
"Dance is so joyous"
"And dance is wonderful because dance is so immediate"
"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"
"It's not a company of exponents of my style"
"I'm interested in people who can take the movement somewhere"
"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"
"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"
"Yes, Carl Vine stuck around. He's now number one composer for choreography"
"I think it requires a bit of honesty, Swan Lake"
"Sydney is a very good market for us - we have a very strong following here"
"No one was creating and I always wanted to be created on"
"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"
"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"
"Mostly, I'm in the very enviable position that no one dictates what I do"
"I think the Olympics could help us reach more people"
