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[Collaboration] is always risky. You don’t have total control. Also, with choreography you have such a short amount of time to do it. If you’re writing a book you’ve got years; a film, you can shop it around; Broadway, take it out six weeks for previews. With most choreographers, you’ve got to create the thing now. So I like to pretend I have absolutely no deadline. So we can play [with] every possibility of stupid mistakes, which are fertile, before you close the box and say, “This is how it has to be.” There has to be a floating balance. And that’s the reality of life.
