Siobhan Davies

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

#any #believe #capable #expanding #go

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

#beginning #cell #could #effect #exactly

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

#always #dance #dances #experience #i

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

#influence #just #know #our #outside

One of our problems is our sense of discipline - dancers have an extraordinary sense of self-discipline. ↗

— Siobhan Davies

#discipline #extraordinary #ordinary sense #our #problems

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

#dance #exposing #ideas #intense #itself

The first 2 weeks, they didn't learn the piece - they went through the process of how the piece was made. ↗

— Siobhan Davies

#how #learn #made #piece #process

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

#back #came #enjoyment #guide #i

There's a mass of places, really, where the idea started. ↗

— Siobhan Davies

#mass #places #really #started #where

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

#aware #consciously #dancers #enough #go