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.
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.
The one reason people don't take dance seriously is because a lot of choreographers don't take dance seriously.
I teach class. I study music. I rehearse. I coach people. That's it. I'm doing exactly what I want.
There was always dance in opera until people forgot to keep it going.
So I'll do what I can to let people see that now.
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.
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 want people to look like people when they're dancing.