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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.