Do male dancers tend to dominate in your ballets, e.g. the male soloist in “Mozartina”?
This is more because of the link with Mozart who holds the ballet together. I have many works which are dominated by women. It’s much more difficult today to find good female dancers than good male dancers. So you don’t have a muse in Zurich Ballet? I have Karine Seneca and Yen Han. Yen Han is like a sponge. It’s wonderful to create for her because she can put so much into the process. Actually Yen dances Chloe in my new ballet “Daphnis et Chloe” (which was premiered in April). And Karine Seneca has a very elegant and sophisticasted aura. Do you have a good relationship with your dancers? I am like a fatherly figure, and I must be at hand if they need me, and I must care for them. But at the same time it’s necessary to have a sense of detachment too, to keep my distance, otherwise it would become too intimate, and that’s not the idea of the whole thing. It’s a group I work with and supervise, but in the evenings I need my own space, space to think and be myself. You have produced some
