Siobhan Davies Quotes & Sayings

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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