By the 1980s, TDT's status as one of Canada's foremost modern dance companies drew people into the organization. However, it became evident that many did not share the artistic vision of the three founders. I think it was immoral for designers, technical people and administrative people to work with TDT when they didn't like us or like what we were doing artistically. Dancers would stay and complain about the choreographers (Peter, Trish and me), pressuring us to bring in other choreographers and making us feel very 'old school'.

I told them that TDT began as -- and continued to be -- a creative forum for Peter, Trish and me and if they didn't like what we were doing they should leave the company. Despite that, dancers would stay and stay and stay, taking our money, our time and our lives and we would find out, often years later, that they hated it -- hated me. They weren't our hostages. They should have left.

Interview: September 26, 2002

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39	Courtyard	1980		54	Cape Eternity	1984
40	Akhenaten	1980		55	Sacra Conversazione	1984
41	La Bilancia	1980		56	Adagio from “The Theatre of Memory”	1985
42	Frost Watch	1980		57	Emotional Geography	1985
43	Emozioni	1980		58	Sacred Garden	1986
44	Moonchase	1981		59	Sunrise	1987
45	Exit, Nightfall	1981		60	Cantata {renamed The Triumph of Love, 1988}	1987
46	Journey	1981		61	Cloud Garden	1987
47	Christmas Concerto	1981		62	Palace of Pleasure (or Death by Love)	1988
48	All the Books in Heaven	1981		63	La Valse	1988
49	Ormai	1982		64	Chichester Psalms	1988
50	Dido and Aeneas	1982		65	Ancient Voices of Children	1989
51	Realm	1983		66	El Amor Brujo (Wedded to Witchcraft)	1989
52	Court of Miracles	1983		67	Schéhérazade	1989
53	Orpheus and Euridice	1984
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Suzette Sherman and Learie McNicolls in Sacred Garden, 1986

Members of Toronto Dance Theatre in Cantata/Triumph of Love, 1988

Andrew Giday in Schéhérazade, 1989