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.

Independent dance - and, fine, it's a very good thing that it remains independent - is a much tougher life: all dancers expect that, and accept that there will be periods of not being able to work, provided there are choice moments during the year when they really can work.

Well, it's not full time - my dancers are only paid for six months of the year in two three-month blocks; but yes, it is possible we could do it in another year.

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

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

It's not just for its influence on us, but to knowknow that we can play a part in it, to understand the influence that we have outside our own existence.