
	Where results make sense

Topic: Graeme Murphy

Related Topics

Sydney Dance Company

Jerome Robbins

Choreographer

Hanya Holm

Ted Shawn

Swan Lake

Flag of Australia

Neoclassical philosophy

Vaslav Nijinsky

Loie Fuller

Radio Birdman

Ipswich, Australia

Culture of Sydney

Mao Zedong

History of Australia

In the News (Wed 10 Feb 10)

Northern Trust

Marvin Harrison

Peter Chernin

Gary Locke

Match Play

Penelope Cruz

Mickey Rourke

AR Rahman

Danny Boyle

Hugh Jackman

	Stateline Tasmania
		She has persuaded choreographer Graeme Murphy to strip to the very bare essentials so she can capture his form in the world's first bronze hologram mirror, one where his image will be frozen in time.
		ANNA MARIA NICHOLSON: The idea of posing for the prototype was especially appealing for Graeme Murphy.
		GRAEME MURPHY: If I'd been captured in my -- when I was 18, 19 or 20, I might have seen a greater likeness.
	www.abc.net.au /stateline/tas/content/2003/s1170894.htm (726 words)

	Murphy on the dance floor - Arts - Entertainment - theage.com.au
		Although Vernon agrees with Murphy that his pas de deux partnering was not in big demand as a young dancer, she says that nonetheless his extraordinary abilities shone through early; there was always something special about him.
		Vernon recalls that the early days of working with Murphy as choreographer were not all smooth: trained in the perfectionism of the classical technique, she was uncomfortable with his unconventional approach.
		Murphy's parents were proud and supportive throughout his life, tracing their son's growing success and reputation through reviews, honorary doctorates and an AM.
	www.theage.com.au /news/arts/murphy-on-the-dance-floor/2006/06/29/1151174330892.html (1522 words)

	Australia Dancing - Murphy, Graeme (1950 - )
		Graeme Murphy was born in Melbourne but spent much of his childhood in Tasmania where he took dance classes from Kenneth Gillespie in Launceston.
		Murphy took on the directorship of the Dance Company (NSW) at the end of 1976, changed the company's name to Sydney Dance Company in 1979 and went on to develop it as a major choreographer-led contemporary dance company.
		Murphy received Australian Dance Awards for outstanding achievement in choreography for Tivoli in 2001 and Swan Lake in 2003 and was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1997.
	www.australiadancing.org /subjects/47.html (494 words)

	Minister - Resignations of Graeme Murphy and Janet Vernon
		Minister - Resignations of Graeme Murphy and Janet Vernon
		The Minister for the Arts and Sport, Senator Rod Kemp, said today’s resignation of Graeme Murphy and Janet Vernon as Artistic Director and Associate Artistic Director of Sydney Dance Company respectively in many ways marks the end of an era.
		“Graeme Murphy and Janet Vernon have both made very important contributions to the artistic direction of Sydney Dance Company over three decades,” Senator Kemp said.
	www.minister.dcita.gov.au /kemp/media/media_releases/resignations_of_graeme_murphy_and_janet_vernon (253 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Graeme Murphy
		Graeme Murphy (born November 1950) is one of Australia's most well known dance choreographers and formed the Sydney Dance Company in 1976 with fellow dancer and collaborator Janet Vernon.
		Murphy has been compared to the dancer and choreographer Jerome Robbins because of the way he and his company has marketed dance to a wider audience, and brought contemporary dance into a more commercial arena.
		Vernon recalls that the early days of working with Murphy as choreographer were not all smooth: trained in the perfectionism of the classical technique, she was uncomfortable with his unconventional approach.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Graeme-Murphy (598 words)

	Henry Thornton - Graeme Murphy’s Tivoli
		Graeme Murphy personally captures the spirit of 'The Tivoli’ at the State Theatre for the second time, originally presented by the Sydney Dance Company and the Australian Ballet’s collaboration in 2001.
		Murphy uses his stylised art form perfectly to portray the absolute horror of war, and its unspeakable waste of young and innocent lives.
		Graeme Murphy is totally deserving of his ‘National Living Treasure’ status, which was awarded to him by the National Trust of Australia in 1999.
	www.henrythornton.com /article.asp?article_id=2060 (268 words)

	crazymartin:online
		In 1976 Graeme Murphy had a vision to create works that were Australian, mixing Australian composers and choreographers to express their own culture.
		Graeme Murphy says of Gossamer that it “explores the symbolic connection between water and the human psyche”.
		Glimpses was created by Graeme Murphy when he was 25 years old for the Australian Ballet in 1976, and was premiered at the Canberra Theatre.
	homepage.mac.com /crazymartin/News/2006/Jun/060602.htm (415 words)

	Dance, Arts Today, Graeme Murphy
		Graeme Murphy: And interestingly Kristian didn't mind if I took it out of period too because Daphnis and Chloe was one of the first times in dance where we jumped centuries, eons.
		Graeme Murphy: Well because I danced recently at the gala for one night only, it was extraordinary how much muscle memory was in my body and also as we were reproducing the works, I could remember exquisite, tiny detail from when I was creating them, what I said to the dancer, what the motivation was.
		Graeme Murphy: In terms of what I put into the retrospective Janet Vernon particularly was so loving and sensitive in what she said must go in.
	www.abc.net.au /arts/headspace/rn/artstoday/murphy/default.htm (1863 words)

	Graeme Murphy's dangerous liaison - Arts - Entertainment - smh.com.au
		IN 1976, when Graeme Murphy was "just a kid in the Australian Ballet", as he described himself, he was singled out of the corps and asked to take a workshop for the company.
		What is interesting now about Murphy's recollection of this moment in his life 30 years later is that his whole body is taut with excitement at the memory of it and the retelling of it - as if he were speaking about yesterday.
		At the time Murphy took over he had stated publicly what he wanted to achieve with the company through contemporary dance: it was to be "something that is Australian in feeling", he said then, something that expressed and "developed our own culture".
	www.smh.com.au /news/arts/graeme-murphys-dangerous-liaison/2006/05/23/1148150253236.html (1006 words)

	Dance, Arts Today, Graeme Murphy
		Graeme Murphy: And interestingly Kristian didn't mind if I took it out of period too because Daphnis and Chloe was one of the first times in dance where we jumped centuries, eons.
		Graeme Murphy: Well because I danced recently at the gala for one night only, it was extraordinary how much muscle memory was in my body and also as we were reproducing the works, I could remember exquisite, tiny detail from when I was creating them, what I said to the dancer, what the motivation was.
		Graeme Murphy: In terms of what I put into the retrospective Janet Vernon particularly was so loving and sensitive in what she said must go in.
	arts.abc.net.au /headspace/rn/artstoday/murphy/default.htm (1863 words)

	Andrew Murphy, Principal
		Murphy joined the Birmingham Royal Ballet as a senior soloist and was promoted to principal dancer in 1998.
		Murphy created the role of Lancelot in David Bintley’s Arthur 1 and Arthur 2, Romeo in Shakespeare Suite, the autumn section of The Seasons, principal roles in Nutcracker Sweeties and The Protecting Veil; James Kudelka’s Le Baiser de la Fee; Lila York’s Sanctum; and Stanton Welch’s Powder.
		Murphy has appeared as a guest artist in galas throughout Australia, Italy, the United Kingdom and the United States.
	www.houstonballet.org /Inside_Houston_Ballet/Dancers/Andrew_Murphy (330 words)

	Artistic Directors - Sydney Dance Company
		Choreographer Graeme Murphy was appointed Artistic Director to Sydney Dance Company in 1976 – then known as The Dance Company (N.S.W.).
		Graeme Murphy was awarded an AM for services to dance in 1982.
		In 1976 she was appointed, along with Graeme Murphy, to the artistic helm of The Dance Company (N.S.W.) which changed its name to Sydney Dance Company in 1979.
	sydneydancecompany.com /company/directors.shtml (1086 words)

	Center for the Performing Arts :: PreViews - MAR07 :: THE INNER VIEW: Sydney Dance Company
		Graeme Murphy, artistic director of Australia’s Sydney Dance Company, has been in love with the piano since his mother ignited his fascination with the instrument during his childhood in rural Tasmania.
		After Betty Pitt Murphy died in 2004, the choreographer was drawn to create a work that would give the piano its due—and pay homage to the woman who gave him both life and music.
		Murphy’s works are known for their heightened theatricality and diversity of forms.
	www.cpa.psu.edu /previews/pv-07-03/pv-syd.html (1236 words)

	Sydney dance duo bows out over funding crisis - Arts - Entertainment
		GRAEME MURPHY and Janet Vernon are quitting the Sydney Dance Company after 30 years, frustrated by a funding shortfall they believe is choking creativity and threatening the future of dance in Australia.
		It is understood they had been considering their position for some time, but the decision to resign has been hastened by their frustration at the prolonged and debilitating battle to secure adequate funding for the company Murphy founded in 1976.
		In their statement, Murphy and Vernon were deeply critical of the Government's "indifference" to dance, an art form that "could bring so much to the troubled culture of Australia's identity.
	www.smh.com.au /news/arts/sydney-dance-duo-bows-out-over-funding-crisis/2006/07/13/1152637808179.html (568 words)

	The Silver Rose
		Graeme Murphy was born in 1951 and started his professional career as a dancer at the Australian Ballet before he left Australia in 1971 to pursue his career in New York and Europe.
		Graeme Murphy was awarded various prizes of well-known Australian cultural institutions, he received an AM (Australia Medal) for services to dance in 1982 and is the recipient of three honorary doctorates.
		Her performances defined Graeme Murphy's evolving choreographic style and established her as the choreographer's muse and constant inspiration.
	www.bayerisches.staatsballett.de /spielplan/v_biografieliste.php?id=838&termin=4714&l=en&dom=dom2 (2485 words)

	visitkn.com - The Director’s Cut
		Her distinctive style while appear to be awkward to the subsequent pieces, still embodies sophistication requires to live up to her highly acclaimed reputation as a renowned choreographer in the Australia dance arena.
		A retrospective of Murphy and SDC would not be completed without Glimpses, as this is the one of the many milestones of Graeme Murphy’s dance achievements.
		This is the piece, which leads 26-year-old Murphy’s appointment as the artistic director of the company, who arguably took SDC to a greater height.
	www.visitkn.com /index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=103&Itemid=34 (482 words)

	Australian Ballet - John Percival (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Graeme Murphy’s “Swan Lake” for the Australian Ballet has just completed the company’s first visit to Britain in well over a decade, performing in the new Wales Millenium Centre, Cardiff (lovely big stage, good acoustics) and the more familiar London Coliseum.
		What Murphy eventually suggested to McAllister after long and involved discussions was a “Swan Lake” about a Prince who marries an innocent young girl, Odette, but maintains the connection with his mistress, Baroness von Rothbart.
		Murphy chose young soloists to play the women, and the three casts shown here were all able enough; Madeleine Eastoe and Lynette Wills on opening night, followed by Rachel Rawlins and Olivia Bell.
	www.danceviewtimes.com /2005/Summer/04/abswanlake.htm (1035 words)

	Choreographic excess nearly does in 'Salome' (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Graeme Murphy, artistic director of the Sydney Dance Company for the past 24 years, stepped into the breach two years ago with a taut reading now touring North America.
		Murphy acknowledges his debt to Wilde, but it is one more related to ambience than narrative details.
		Murphy sought to create a potent work of dance, and he did, by means of overstatement and voluptuous tension.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /classical/sydneyq.shtml (678 words)

	Dance from Down Under (March 12, 2004)
		T hree years ago, Graeme Murphy, artistic director and choreographer of the Sydney Dance Company, was listening to late-night radio.
		Murphy wanted to commission Hindson to compose a piece for the Sydney Dance Company, but learned he would not be available until 2007.
		Hindson authorized Murphy to "do what he had to do" in interpreting the music for "Ellipse." Nevertheless, Murphy was "terrified" as to what Hindson would think when he saw his music set to dance.
	www.paloaltoonline.com /weekly/morgue/2004/2004_03_12.sdc12.shtml (1440 words)

	Graeme Murphy’s Ellipse \| Vibewire 3.0 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Graeme Murphy’s Ellipse, has returned to the stage after outstanding reviews of a successful season earlier this year.
		This organic nature of the dancers contrasts with, in Murphy’s words, the “madly contoured elliptical design” of Gerard Manion, which is industrial and cold, serving the purpose of framing the dancers and providing another point of conflict.
		The dancers, as choreographed by Murphy, bring to the stage unparalleled energy and poetic grace, which is demanded by the music.
	www.vibewire.net /life/rarsep12graeme_murphy_s_ellipse (394 words)

	Sydney Dance Company - Graeme Murphy's Ellipse - Review
		Costume designer Akira Isogawa, with whom Murphy collaborates regularly, wrapped the dancers in lengths of cloth that either hung as fringe on waistbands or enveloped their bodies with varying colours, adding pounds to the dancers lithesome physiques.
		Murphy’s exemplary use of the varying landscape of Hindson’s music deserves accolade, as does the extraordinary effort the dancers put into making the 60-minute show of pure ebb and flow devoid of any low points.
		My only complaint when it comes to the choreography is: Murphy could have tried harder to abandon some of the vaudeville-like characteristics that seem a hangover from his last work Tivoli to experiment more with the endless limitations of his dancers’ bodies.
	www.criticaldance.com /reviews/2002/sydney-dance_elipse020508.html (544 words)

	Matt & Andrej Koymasky - Famous GLTB - Graeme Murphy
		Graeme Murphy was appointed Artistic Director to Sydney Dance Company in 1976 - then known as The Dance Company [NSW].
		Graeme was awarded an AM for services to dance in 1982.
		In 2002, Graeme was honoured with the prestigious James Cassius Award, in recognition of his many career achievements.
	andrejkoymasky.com /liv/fam/biom6/murp3.html (395 words)

	TALLPOPPIES.NET :: Tall Poppies Records (Site not responding. Last check: )
		For 25 years the Sydney Dance Company, under the artistic direction of Graeme Murphy, has dominated the Australian dance scene.
		Murphy has always had a special mission to commission and promote new Australian dance work, and this CD presents a small selection of some of the most successful scores, released to coincide with a national tour celebrating his work.
		Graeme Koehne (b 1956) studied at Yale with Louis Andriessen and Jacob Druckman, and also worked with Virgil Thompson.
	members.iinet.net.au /~tallpoppies/t2.cgi?tp=cd&val=146 (482 words)

	supernaut ... i whore for art … war and sport take centre stage
		In their statement, Murphy and Vernon were deeply critical of the Government's "indifference" to dance, an artform which, "could bring so much to the troubled culture of Australia's identity.
		GRAEME Murphy and Janet Vernon are quitting the Sydney Dance Company after 30 years, frustrated by a funding shortfall they believe is choking creativity and threatening the future of dance in Australia.
		That deficit was wiped out by a one-off $600,000 payment in the last federal budget, but it has no guarantee of additional funding and is expected to go back into the red by the end of this financial year.
	www.supernaut.info /2006/07/war_and_sport_take_centre_stag.html (611 words)

	Canberra Theatre Centre
		Graeme Murphy was presented with an AM for services to dance in 1982.
		In 1976 she was appointed, along with Graeme Murphy, to the artistic helm of The Dance Company (N.S.W.), later changed to Sydney Dance Company.
		She compiled and edited Graeme Murphy’s choreography from a broad range of works into one seamless performance, destined for Australia wide success.
	www.canberratheatre.org.au /pages/page186.asp (1437 words)

	Shanghai & Delta STAR (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Murphy is recognized by many as an excellent choreographer for contemporary dance, but he believes he can create choreography for both classical and contemporary ballet.
		Murphy revealed that "Grand" is a tribute to his mother, Betty Murphy, a Tasmanian schoolteacher and passionate pianist who passed away in 2004.
		Murphy's mother introduced him to the instrument and thus it inspired Murphy to cultivate a lifelong love of the piano.
	www.shanghai-star.com.cn /Shanghai_Delta/Shanghai_Delta_news.asp?lv1=1&lv2=4&newsid=2140&viewsid=2140&views=5 (663 words)

	DANCE: TORVILL AND DEAN, ICE SKATERS - New York Times
		It is true that they have enlisted a ballet and modern-dance choreographer, Graeme Murphy, to create many of their new dances - especially the ensembles.
		Murphy's ''Song of India'' casts the couple in a grappling, floating pas de deux visibly inspired by India's erotic temple sculptures.
		Murphy knows how to construct both a harem ballet and a pattern dance.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9A0DE6DD1E3FF93BA35757C0A960948260 (687 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)