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...
ideas splinters pieces
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.
among dancers forward genuine interest money
We need to find the money to do it again, but there was such a genuine interest among the dancers who did come forward that I feel we should.
energy excitement exciting shines therefore valued
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.
bits dancers fact highly oil parts period possible productive repertory teaching worked
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.
experience help people resource talking trying using
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.
chosen class coming dancers performing seen
Two of them were chosen already, because they were dancers I'd seen coming to class and performing regularly, but not having enough work.
influence outside understand
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.
ability dancers hunger learning round turn wonderful
There's a hunger for learning, and I think that dancers are wonderful in their ability to turn round and say 'every day is a learning day'.
They should be working, and there isn't enough work.
aware good improve work
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.
audience dilemma enjoy requires
There's that dilemma - you want an audience to really enjoy what you're doing, and sometimes that requires them to know a lot about your subject.
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.
dance ideas world
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.
cells ideas knowing
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.