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Graeme Murphy

"I think the Olympics could help us reach more people."

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"There's a line of dancers waiting to get into Sydney Dance Company."
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"Yes, Carl Vine stuck around. He's now number one composer for choreography."
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"SDC has a great reputation for putting live music on stage."
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"I mean, I think in the early days we were pretty... pretty British in our entertainment leads."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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