We're all in the same room, so I want people to be involved with one another, but again you can't decide exactly to what extent that operates. It varies all the time and it depends on the show, it depends on the audience, it depends on everything.
So I'll do what I can to let people see that now.
Perhaps... I mean there are people who defend that it as an art. I don't. I like it but it's not an art form as far as I'm concerned, and yet it's a similar thing, once you can't land those jumps, you're disqualified - that precludes it from ever becoming a serious art form.
I teach class. I study music. I rehearse. I coach people. That's it. I'm doing exactly what I want.
I want people to look like people when they're dancing.
I build duets into bigger works. I like to see people working together. What we call a giant solo in my company is about four bars long while twenty other people are doing something dynamically. I like the charge that is set up by a lot of people doing something.
The one reason people don't take dance seriously is because a lot of choreographers don't take dance seriously.
There was always dance in opera until people forgot to keep it going.
Some people only work to recorded music because it's so reliable and exactly the same every time, which is exactly why I don't.