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

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

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

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

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.

And dance is wonderful because dance is so immediate.

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.