The dance world is too small in lots of ways - it's too intense, it rattles around itself, and it needs exposing to other ideas.

We could ask artists from abroad to come in too, so that there could be a mixing and matching of skills from Europe, America and here which would widen our world.

I don't start a piece knowing exactly what effect it's going to have. There is a seed of an idea that I could never articulate, right at the beginning of the piece, literally like one cell.

Yes - it's the same in any other work - the more you massage your thinking the more capable I believe you are of expanding how you go about things and learning.

We need to think on a broader plane, we need to do more than we're doing.

Then I came in twice a week - for my own enjoyment as well as to be a guide. And then we started to apply some of the splinters of the ideas back into the piece.

One of our problems is our sense of discipline - dancers have an extraordinary sense of self-discipline.