Everybody else was expecting more from Graziano. “People were writing to me and saying, ‘I can’t wait to hear about all this stuff you’re creating at home.’ But I wasn’t creating anything at home,” he said. “When I decided to give myself time for body healing and mental healing, I didn’t force myself to create anything. I didn’t feel I had to do anything and then things started flowing.” That’s the way he prefers to let new choreography develop. “I always have so many random ideas and eventually I did start thinking and planning a ballet,” he said, but he initially had no dancers to work out his vision.