Siobhan Davies Quotes

• 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.

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  Dance, Play, Influence

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

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  Self, Discipline, Dancer

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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.

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  Track, Want, Made

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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.

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  Artist, Our World, Europe

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

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  Thinking, Needs, Planes

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

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  Ideas, Mass

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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.

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  Block, Years, Two

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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.

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  Independent, Years, Choices

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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.

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  Acceptance, Hands, Ideas

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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.

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  Cells, Ideas, Knowing

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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.

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  Ideas, Splinters, Pieces

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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.

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  Dance, Ideas, Ballet

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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.

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  Believe, Thinking, Massage

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