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
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.
dance giving next
Some are less giving, others are more reticent and you actually have to create for them. Others have within them the next step.
inspiration dancer looks
I look at the dancers and I get the inspiration for the work from them.
dream dancer company
I actually build my dreams around the dancers I've got in my company.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
wonderful
And dance is wonderful because dance is so immediate.
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.
honesty thinking lakes
I think it requires a bit of honesty, Swan Lake.