Siobhan Davies Quotes

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• Then I came in twice a week - for my own enjoyment as well as to be a guide. And then we started to apply…
• I don't start a piece knowing exactly what effect it's going to have. There is a seed of an idea that I could never articulate,…
• If I only made dances about my own experience in dance, it would always be on my track, and I don't want that, I want…
• On the other hand in London you can get an audience that desires dance to go as far as it can go: they've seen the…
• Independent dance - and, fine, it's a very good thing that it remains independent - is a much tougher life: all dancers expect that, and…
• We could ask artists from abroad to come in too, so that there could be a mixing and matching of skills from Europe, America and…
• Well, it's not full time - my dancers are only paid for six months of the year in two three-month blocks; but yes, it is…
• There's a mass of places, really, where the idea started.
• We need to think on a broader plane, we need to do more than we're doing.
• One of our problems is our sense of discipline - dancers have an extraordinary sense of self-discipline.
• Yes - it's the same in any other work - the more you massage your thinking the more capable I believe you are of expanding…
• It's not just for its influence on us, but to knowknow that we can play a part in it, to understand the influence that we…
• The dance world is too small in lots of ways - it's too intense, it rattles around itself, and it needs exposing to other ideas.
• It's not just for its influence on us, but to know that we can play a part in it, to understand the influence that we…
• The first 2 weeks, they didn't learn the piece - they went through the process of how the piece was made.
• They improve greatly, and sometimes I go and see the performances they do and I am consciously aware that there isn't enough work for the…
• They should be working, and there isn't enough work.
• Those 25 dancers we worked with for a day, in as highly productive a way as possible - a long class, a period of teaching…
• We're talking about people who've already got 3-4, if not 5-6 years' experience or more, and it's about trying to help professionals develop, using us…
• What we do now is to be valued - but we need to do more, so that it's more exciting to other people, and therefore…

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