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Graeme Murphy

"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."

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"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."

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"I don't think people we'll miss the fact that SDC is way up there and that our profile is high."
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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 actually build my dreams around the dancers I've got in my company."
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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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"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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