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
creating wanted
No one was creating and I always wanted to be created on.
act black cutting easier life putting swan
So putting the Black Swan in Act 1 where Tchaikovsky put it and not cutting repeats just to make your life easier - because it was there for a reason.
brought few french great towards
And then towards the end, in the '60s... and '50s and '60s, there was great controversy 'cause they brought a few French troupes out.
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.
I think the Olympics could help us reach more people.
early entertainment
I mean, I think in the early days we were pretty... pretty British in our entertainment leads.
miss people
I don't think people we'll miss the fact that SDC is way up there and that our profile is high.
composer number stuck vine
Yes, Carl Vine stuck around. He's now number one composer for choreography.
thrilled
I'm thrilled at the moment because our audiences, you know, they... the demographic is 50% male.
We moved, and there was a golden era in the '40s when we were so conscious of who we were as Australians.
It's not a company of exponents of my style.
characters emotional happens reality reasons relationships
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.
waiting dancer lines
There's a line of dancers waiting to get into Sydney Dance Company.
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.