Angelin Preljocaj On Choosing Dancers

“It’s like a bouquet of flowers. In some companies you’ll only find tulips, they might be yellow or red, but they’re still tulips, because the choreographer has an idea of what the bodies performing their work should look like. But my company is a bouquet of lots of things – tulips, roses, even thorns. Their bodies are very different, not just their personalities, there are tall girls, short girls, big boys, thin boys, and I like that.”