25th October 2009

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Produced by Julie Bloom

“I’m Andrew Crawford. I’m from Sydney Australia. I was picked up by Morphoses..uh.. when they went to Sydney earlier this year for the Sydney Festival…I was drawn to it. I mean I was born into it anyway because um, my mother used it as cheap child minding. Of course my oldest sister naturally wanted to be a ballerina but um I grew up moving. The freedom of it…it’s um.. it is such a kind of personal thing, it is, in a sense, a meditation, you know, which I think a lot of people strive for these days. They want to have that personal time. They want to find this meditation; they want to find this stillness or this, this intimacy with themselves and their own life experience and it’s something that you get immediately when you, when you dance—-especially when you can and there’s beautiful music and you’re involved with the music. There’s such a focus about that..um..the challenge of classical ballet is so extreme and never ending. I think with a lot of disciplines it’s very much like that. It can never be turned out enough, it can never be long enough, it can never be on or off balance enough. Nothing can ever be quite there so you’ve always got further to go.” Andrew Crawford