“The unusual thing about me as a choreographer is that I don’t start with movement. It’s because my pieces are always story-led. The movement doesn’t happen until we get in the studio. It’s very collaborative. I wouldn’t stand in front of the mirror working out choreography because I’m older now and I’ve got fantastic dancers who can do things I could never do. It’s their personalities I’m interested in so I’m not going to give it to them; I want them to give it to me.”

“If I stop and think about it, the satisfaction I get… well, I could die tomorrow a happy man. The journey is so perfect for me. It makes me less ambitious and more concentrated on what I really want, and that’s the company. That’s what I’ve always really loved, and what I’ve done since I was a kid. I used to get people from my street together to put on a show in the bedroom or the garden, and even then I’d call them my company.”

– Matthew Bourne, from an interview in the SCOTSMAN.
He seems so happy with his process and his collaborators.
I, too, could die tomorrow a happy man, were I a man,
(Beatrice: “Oh, were I a man!”…)
knowing about the collaboration about to happen today.