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In some ways this is the weirdest piece
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I've ever made and the most traditional.
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But the idea for the piece actually came
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a lot from the space.
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One thing I felt right away is
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that it has the feeling
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of a 1960's sci-fi spaceship.
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Another thing it reminded me of
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was a European parliamentary room.
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I also at the time was reading about
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the Hadron particle collider,
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and so you had this sci-fi aspect,
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then you had this parliamentary room
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where people get mad at each other and beat each other up.
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And then you had the science of these particles
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colliding into each other, so I started thinking
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about the idea of a battle.
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[Ryan] It's not something,
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especially the dancers I work with,
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are usually in anything that has a narrative.
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So that is a traditional aspect of it,
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there is a storytelling element.
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And now I think that, that is something
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that I'm interested in, is taking what's
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traditionally accepted as performance and tweaking it.
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♫ Swallowing diamonds, a cutting throat
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♫ Your teeth when you grin reflecting beams on tombstones
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♫ A jamboree of surprises...
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Yeah, I'm definitely trying to use the space in ways
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that it hasn't been used before.
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So once I felt like I had utilized
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every inch of this,
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I started thinking even beyond the theatre.
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Perhaps ideas of it then continues forever.
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Just when you think the piece is over,
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it's not over (laughs)
