Graeme Murphy
Graeme Murphy
Graeme Lloyd Murphy AOis an Australian dance choreographer. Together with his fellow dancerJanet Vernon, he has guided Sydney Dance Company to become one of Australia's most successful and well-known dance companies...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionDancer
Date of Birth2 November 1950
CountryAustralia
essence important stories
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.
dream dancer company
I actually build my dreams around the dancers I've got in my company.
honesty thinking lakes
I think it requires a bit of honesty, Swan Lake.
strong very-good following
Sydney is a very good market for us - we have a very strong following here.
reputation stage live-music
SDC has a great reputation for putting live music on stage.
drama theatre four
Normally our season is seven weeks in the Drama Theatre and four weeks in the Opera Theater.
creating wanted
No one was creating and I always wanted to be created on.
moving years people
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.
white giving people
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.
position
Mostly, I'm in the very enviable position that no one dictates what I do.
crops cream-of-the-crop position
I'm in the position to pick the cream of the crop.
dance people groups
I'm not interested in a group of people with some sort of incredible homogeny,a group that can do the movement I want. I'm interested in people whocan take the movement somewhere.
We moved, and there was a golden era in the '40s when we were so conscious of who we were as Australians.
people movement
I'm interested in people who can take the movement somewhere.