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
anniversary australia-day 50th-birthday
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.
inspiration dancer looks
I look at the dancers and I get the inspiration for the work from them.
flower tree green
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.
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.
people movement
I'm interested in people who can take the movement somewhere.
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.