Choreographer Matthew Bourne created a sensation with his offbeat “Swan Lake.” Now he’s back with a new version of “Carmen,” which he’s renamed “Car Man.” “This time I wanted to do something dirty, earthy, tethered to the ground. At first I even thought of setting Car Man in a meat factory, with carcasses on hooks. The dancers here are playing real people. It’s like rehearsing with actors: we argue about their motives when I suppose we should be designing movements. But my skill is as a director of stories, not movement for its own sake. I’d get bored if I was doing abstract dance.” – The Observer (London)