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

And dance is wonderful because dance is so immediate.

There's a line of dancers waiting to get into Sydney Dance Company.

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

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.

Normally our season is seven weeks in the Drama Theatre and four weeks in the Opera Theater.

No one was creating and I always wanted to be created on.