And as it turns out, so perhaps was Faure. He saw death as something that was just part of your life you can't avoid. If there's anything that's come out of the work, it is a thing of acceptance. The serenity, to me, seems to come from someone who has a great acceptance of the order of things. And from the point of view of the dancers who are doing it, it's interesting because they find it very very hard to be still.
Actors certainly understand that, the simplest gesture or the simplest glance, the weight of it.
Baynes realises he's on a roll. Like Miranda,'' he says, pointing to the photograph of principal dancer Miranda Coney and soloist Timothy Harbour in the program. Baynes discovered Faure as a young boy growing up in Adelaide, learning piano from age seven before swapping music studies for dance at the age of 14. And this is not the first time the French composer has been Baynes' muse. He has been with the Australian Ballet since 1976, apart from a fiveyear absence when he left to join the Stuttgart Ballet in 1980, returning to the AB in 1985.