Alastair Macauley's Matthew Bourne's Adventures in Motion Pictures

I found a reference to this book in an article in the New Yorker which said it documented in detail the creative process of a choreographer. Well, it certainly does that. The book is a printing out of a series of conversations between an admiring, perhaps even sycophantic author and a choreographer of considerable daring, Matthew Bourne. Bourne provided modern adaptations of a number of the great ballet classics, Swan Lake, Nutcracker. It reminds me of the work of modern settings for Shakespearean plays. The process Bourne uses has some points in common with my own writing: he discusses the sorts of images and influences on his work and where he got his outlandish ideas. But the book would have been better if there had been more analysis. I also failed to be shocked, as the audiences apparently once were, at the gay iconography in the dances. A male corps de ballet for Swan Lake...big deal.