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.
Graeme Murphy

And dance is wonderful because dance is so immediate.
Graeme Murphy

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.
Graeme Murphy

Dance is so joyous.
Graeme Murphy

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.
Graeme Murphy

I actually build my dreams around the dancers I've got in my company.
Graeme Murphy

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.
Graeme Murphy

I don't think people we'll miss the fact that SDC is way up there and that our profile is high.
Graeme Murphy

I look at the dancers and I get the inspiration for the work from them.
Graeme Murphy

I mean, I think in the early days we were pretty... pretty British in our entertainment leads.
Graeme Murphy


I think it requires a bit of honesty, Swan Lake.
Graeme Murphy

I think the Olympics could help us reach more people.
Graeme Murphy

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.
Graeme Murphy

I'm in the position to pick the cream of the crop.
Graeme Murphy

I'm interested in people who can take the movement somewhere.
Graeme Murphy

I'm thrilled at the moment because our audiences, you know, they... the demographic is 50% male.
Graeme Murphy

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.
Graeme Murphy

It's not a company of exponents of my style.
Graeme Murphy

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.
Graeme Murphy

Mostly, I'm in the very enviable position that no one dictates what I do.
Graeme Murphy