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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.