Greek myth represents real and imagined animals in words and pictures as cultural and conceptual tools.
Places in the landscape where you would imagine animals might have gone to, to have a drink," he said.
In his current project, Post Natural History, he seamlessly blends the two together by re-imagining animals as technological tools that benefit humans and the environment around them.
Modern dance, intense modern dance uses sort of foreign music and music that almost makes you imagine animals swinging on vines or things crawling.
In our efforts to imagine animal minds, there will always be a tension between sympathetic imagination and rational skepticism.
Few artists of any kind have done so much to imagine animal realms undisturbed by humans; certainly no other choreographer.
They say cheep cheep, bowwow, meow meow, because they're incapable of imagining an animal of colossal proportions, or the absence of such an animal".
When she tells me she sees "rebellious young girls" wearing her designs, I can't help but feel she's imagining her animal-obsessed, unconventional younger self.
Ultimately even the animal cage gave way to the seemingly unbounded habitat, within which we imagine the animals running free, though they are constrained by the presence of unseen moats and ditches.
They have new closets dating from a 20-year-old renovation, and none of the peeling paint shapes on the ceiling that could be imagined into animals by a child falling asleep.
