Siobhan Davies Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

“They should be working, and there isn't enough work.”

“We need to think on a broader plane, we need to do more than we're doing.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”