Siobhan Davies
Siobhan Davies
Siobhan Davies CBEwas a dancer with the London Contemporary Dance Theatre during the 1970s, and became one of its leading choreographers creating groundbreaking work such as Sphinx. In 1988, she founded her own company, Siobhan Davies Dance...
independent years choices
Independent dance - and, fine, it's a very good thing that it remains independent - is a much tougher life: all dancers expect that, and accept that there will be periods of not being able to work, provided there are choice moments during the year when they really can work.
artist our-world europe
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 here which would widen our world.
block years two
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 possible we could do it in another year.
ideas mass
There's a mass of places, really, where the idea started.
dance play influence
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 have outside our own existence.
self discipline dancer
One of our problems is our sense of discipline - dancers have an extraordinary sense of self-discipline.
learn piece process
The first 2 weeks, they didn't learn the piece - they went through the process of how the piece was made.
believe thinking massage
Yes - it's the same in any other work - the more you massage your thinking the more capable I believe you are of expanding how you go about things and learning.
They should be working, and there isn't enough work.
thinking needs planes
We need to think on a broader plane, we need to do more than we're doing.