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I wanted to do dance with the same seriousness as art was done and acknowledged, not with the entertainment factor that is always connected to theater and film.

There was always dance in opera until people forgot to keep it going.

Theater is a dance of a different kind, a dance of rawness and characters stripped down.

I kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreography.

I was interested in opera and it seemed to me that the only possible theatre for contemporary opera would be television. So I started working towards a kind of television kind of opera.

Trying to describe something musical is like dancing to architecture, it's really difficult.

I was into opera as a kid - I'd play 'Carmen' and sing and dance. My mom signed me up for a theater group before preschool, and I never looked back.

On the other hand, I was very much interested in the way people behaved, the human dance, how they seemed to move around each other. I wanted to play around with that.

Opera is the original marriage of words and music, and there's a theatre element, a dramatic element. It's right up my alley.

Theater was something that I always wanted to study.