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
people movement
I'm interested in people who can take the movement somewhere.
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.
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.
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.
miss people
I don't think people we'll miss the fact that SDC is way up there and that our profile is high.
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.
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.
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.