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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music.
It's weird when you see pieces of choreography that were done for you 15 or 20 years ago and now they are being done by another dance company.
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.
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.
Modern dancers should be doing things no one else is doing, and it should come from the gut.
I think all dancers are control freaks a bit. We just want to be in control of ourselves and our bodies. That's just what the ballet structure, I think, kind of puts inside of you.
I have always loved contemporary dance, but it has always been a bit of a mystery to me. But choreography is very much like what I do when you are putting characters in frame on the page. It's so impressive what they do with their bodies. It's like painting: an abstraction.
Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
I'm pretty gutsy. Dancers don't think about things; they just do them.
Dancers are stripped enough onstage. You don't have to know more about them than they've given you already.