Quotes by Siobhan Davies - Page 1

There's a mass of places, really, where the idea started.
Siobhan Davies / Dancer
Ideas
Mass
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We need to think on a broader plane, we need to do more than we're doing.
Siobhan Davies / Dancer
Needs
Planes
Thinking
Broader
Plane
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One of our problems is our sense of discipline - dancers have an extraordinary sense of self-discipline.
Siobhan Davies / Dancer
Dancer
Discipline
Extraordinary
Self
Self Discipline
Dancers
Problems
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The first 2 weeks, they didn't learn the piece - they went through the process of how the piece was made.
Siobhan Davies / Dancer
Piece
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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.
Siobhan Davies / Dancer
Dance
Ballet
Exposing
Ideas
Intense
Needs
Lots
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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 have outside our own existence.
Siobhan Davies / Dancer
Existence
Influence
Play
Just
Us
Understand
Own
Part
Outside
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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 good dancers.
Siobhan Davies / Dancer
Work Good Enough
Work Good I Am
Aware
Dancers
Greatly
Performance
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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.
Siobhan Davies / Dancer
Dance
Existence
Influence
Play
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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.
Siobhan Davies / Dancer
Believe
Capable
Expanding
Massage
Thinking
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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.
Siobhan Davies / Dancer
Block
Paid
Two
Years
Blocks
Dancers
Three-Month
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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 some of the splinters of the ideas back into the piece.
Siobhan Davies / Dancer
Enjoyment
Ideas
Pieces
Splinters
Twice
Apply
Guide
Piece
Twice A Week
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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.
Siobhan Davies / Dancer
Artist
Europe
Matching
Mixing
Our World
Skills
World America Europe
Abroad
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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 to be on the track of where dance can take me.
Siobhan Davies / Dancer
Dance
Made
Track
Want
Experience Always Me
Dances
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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 as a resource for that development.
Siobhan Davies / Dancer
Experience People More
Develop
Experience People Help
Professionals
Resource
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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, right at the beginning of the piece, literally like one cell.
Siobhan Davies / Dancer
Cells
Ideas
Knowing
Articulate
Beginning
Cell
Effect
Exactly
Exactly What
Literally
Piece
Seed
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Those 25 dancers we worked with for a day, in as highly productive a way as possible - a long class, a period of teaching bits of the repertory - in fact I didn't teach Bank, I've used parts of Oil and Water.
Siobhan Davies / Dancer
Bits
Teach
Bank
Dancers
Period
In Fact
Parts
Repertory
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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 that excitement shines back on us and we're able to have the energy to do more, to widen our creativity.
Siobhan Davies / Dancer
Excitement
Valued
Shines
Therefore
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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 bricks of ideas built over a period so therefore there is an acceptance of what otherwise might seem out on a limb.
Siobhan Davies / Dancer
Acceptance
Bricks
Hands
Ideas
London
Desires
Period
Limb
Otherwise
Therefore
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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.
Siobhan Davies / Dancer
Dance
Choices
Independent
Moments
Periods
Remains
Years
Life Work Good
Good Thing
Provided
Tougher
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