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.

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

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

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

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

SDC has a great reputation for putting live music on stage.

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.