They're small, they're personal, they're inviting. It's interesting to me that as big as these homes get, it's the smaller spaces that people are drawn to. They like the cozy, smaller rooms. They feel more intimate.

One calculator was a casualty of the rain.

Government is force, legalized plunder.

[But there are others uneasy about the encroachment of bare skin.] I think as a rule in classical ballet there is not a great call for nudity, ... Our aesthetic is one built around a clarity of line and form which is seen at its best when there is a uniform covering of the body.

What the hurricane did was bring a close team a lot closer. The whole atmosphere, staying in a hotel, apartments, condos, in San Antonio. The hurricane left people fighting for their lives and we want them to know, if they don't give up on us, we're not going to give up on them.

[So we won't be seeing the Australian Ballet consider a naked Albrecht, a la Mats Ek, any time soon?] It would not be the sort of thing that we would seek out, ... I think if one relies on sensationalist nudity to make a ballet relevant to a contemporary audience then there obviously is some work needed on that ballet.