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The Director’s Cut captures the spirit of Graeme Murphy’s 30 year reign at Sydney Dance Company and takes us full circle to the birth of an artistic vision so clearly enunciated in 1976:

“We should be developing more of our own culture…creating something that is Australian in feeling – works by Australian composers and Australian choreographers that express our own culture.” Graeme Murphy quoted in The Age Sept 1976

The Director’s Cut celebrates the dream that became a reality.

Gossamer is influenced by the still botanical photography of Karl Blossfield, whose work celebrates the exquisite detail of ordinary things. Choreographer Narelle Benjamin, the recipient of the 2005 Hepzhibah Tintner Fellowship for creative artists, is a widely admired dancer whose creative spirit is aligned with the unseen energies of yoga and the flow of energy its discipline generates through the human body.

‘…more magical and heart-starting…’ The BRAG 2005

Glimpses is a timeless gem from the ’70s in which Graeme Murphy harnesses the world of Australian artist Norman Lindsay and the music of Australian composer Margaret Sutherland, whose Haunted Hills is an aural painting of the landscape.
“Glimpses is clever (undoubtedly so), wry, bawdy, orgiastic, comical, pastoral, historical and whimsical…..Taking his inspiration from the famous Norman Lindsay prints of the nymphs and satyrs…Murphy has created an adult dance pantomime..” William Shoubridge, Theatre Australia, 1977

CUT is a work that is both new and revisionist. As a choreographer whose imaginative vocabulary can appear limitless, Murphy now looks back and looks forward simultaneously to explore movement, to respin and recut. Drawing upon signature phrases, idiosyncratic leitmotifs within his existing work, Murphy creates a surprising melange, passionately interpreted by a company of dancers whose grasp of his signature style has never been more definitive.

‘Always moving forward with fresh creativity’ SMH, 2005

‘…every dancer is accomplished and committed’. Canberra Times, 2005