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Graeme Murphy

Graeme Murphy 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 . Sydney Dance Company is now one of Australia's most successful and well-known dance companies.

Murphy grew up in Tasmania, and began his career as a student at the Australian Ballet School . From there he became a dancer with The Australian Ballet where he was given opportunities to choreograph. He spent some time dancing with Les Ballets Felix Blaska before returning to Australia in the mid-1970s.

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.

Choreographies include (in rough chronological order) Poppy, Boxes, After Venice, Daphnis and Chloe, Shining, Nearly Beloved, Beyond Twelve, The Nutcracker (for the Australian Ballet), Synergy, Beauty and the Beast, Free Radicals, Air and other Invisible forces, Swan Lake (for The Australian Ballet), Ellipse.


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