“That is something I think we’ve been grappling with for 50 years. But the things that we get told, when we go overseas, is that there’s an openness, that the movement is quite large. It’s a bit reflecting of our country, which is vast, wide-open expanses of nothing. I think there’s an optimism. The company tend to be fairly, um — they’ll give anything a go. There’s this term in Australia: ‘She’ll be right, mate.’ And that’s a sort of attitude in the way the dancers dance.”