"The dance world is too small in lots of ways - it's too intense, it rattles around itself, and it needs exposing to other ideas."

Dance, Ideas, Needs, World

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"The dance world is too small in lots of ways - it's too intense, it rattles around itself, and it needs exposing to other ideas."

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"Well, it's not full time - my dancers are only paid for six months of the year in two three-month blocks; but yes, it is possible we could do it in another year."

Time, Months

"The first 2 weeks, they didn't learn the piece - they went through the process of how the piece was made."

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"It's not just for its influence on us, but to know that we can play a part in it, to understand the influence that we have outside our own existence."

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"Then I came in twice a week - for my own enjoyment as well as to be a guide. And then we started to apply some of the splinters of the ideas back into the piece."

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"One of our problems is our sense of discipline - dancers have an extraordinary sense of self-discipline."

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"Yes - it's the same in any other work - the more you massage your thinking the more capable I believe you are of expanding how you go about things and learning."

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"Those 25 dancers we worked with for a day, in as highly productive a way as possible - a long class, a period of teaching bits of the repertory - in fact I didn't teach Bank, I've used parts of Oil and Water."

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"We're talking about people who've already got 3-4, if not 5-6 years' experience or more, and it's about trying to help professionals develop, using us as a resource for that development."

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