I think it requires a bit of honesty, Swan Lake.

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

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.

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

I think it requires a bit of honesty, Swan Lake.

I'm not interested in a group of people with some sort of incredible homogeny,a group that can do the movement I want. I'm interested in people whocan take the movement somewhere.

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.