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
Graeme Murphy quotes about
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.
crops cream-of-the-crop position
I'm in the position to pick the cream of the crop.
reputation stage live-music
SDC has a great reputation for putting live music on stage.
honesty thinking lakes
I think it requires a bit of honesty, Swan Lake.
wonderful
And dance is wonderful because dance is so immediate.
dance believe character
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.
thrilled
I'm thrilled at the moment because our audiences, you know, they... the demographic is 50% male.
composer number stuck vine
Yes, Carl Vine stuck around. He's now number one composer for choreography.
miss people
I don't think people we'll miss the fact that SDC is way up there and that our profile is high.
early entertainment
I mean, I think in the early days we were pretty... pretty British in our entertainment leads.
afford commission nature people sound symphonies works
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.