Daily Inspiration Quote by Graeme Murphy

There is a quiet power move in Murphy framing dreams as something built around other people’s bodies, not imposed on them. In dance, the fantasy is often the opposite: the choreographer as auteur, conjuring an ideal work and then hunting for “the right” dancers to execute it. Murphy flips that hierarchy. The intent is pragmatic - he’s describing a method - but it doubles as an ethics statement. The company isn’t a set of interchangeable parts; it’s the engine of imagination.

The subtext is respect sharpened into strategy. “Dreams” can sound airy, even self-mythologizing, yet Murphy anchors them in the dancers he already has. That grounds artistic ambition in an ecosystem of real strengths, limitations, quirks, and histories. It also implies a collaborative authorship without pretending choreography isn’t still control: he’s still the one building. He just chooses to build with the material at hand, letting specific performers shape what counts as possible.

Context matters because contemporary companies live and die on personality, not just technique. Audiences attach to dancers as presences - charisma, emotional intelligence, attack, fragility - and Murphy’s approach treats that as dramaturgy. It’s also a survival tactic in an art form with thin margins: developing work that fits your ensemble protects morale, reduces churn, and makes the company legible as a distinct cultural product. The line sells a philosophy of making: the dream isn’t a blueprint. It’s an adaptation.