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.

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

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

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

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.

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.