Dancers are stripped enough onstage. You don't have to know more about them than they've given you already.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I'm pretty gutsy. Dancers don't think about things; they just do them.
We put too much on contemporary dancers. A lot of them cannot change styles; a lot of them can't do anything else other than run around the stage reaching and stretching in anguish to somebody off camera that I never understand who it is. But it's the teenage angst they have to live with.
When I was a dancer, I would see that dancers were treated like garbage. I mean like, like extras.
Dancers can get to see almost everything now. When I used to go into companies to make a piece, the dancers had hardly ever seen my work. Now they can watch it on YouTube. It means they're much faster at picking up material.
Every act I see, their whole act is choreographed. I'm sick of seeing these dancers. The only reason they have them is they don't have enough talent to get people dancing themselves.
They improve greatly, and sometimes I go and see the performances they do and I am consciously aware that there isn't enough work for the good dancers.
In the UK and the US especially you've got a lot of throwaway artists who have their 40 million dancers and they do their show. There's many artists who would not do a live show because they know they can't.
Dancers, like all performing artists, like nothing better than to be challenged.
Modern dancers should be doing things no one else is doing, and it should come from the gut.
You see, dancers are quite mature people because they start performing so early. They become professionals when they start to take everyday classes.