Siobhan Davies Quotes

United Kingdom, Dancer
September 18, 1950

Siobhan Davies CBE born in London, and often known as Sue Davies was a dancer with the London Contemporary Dance Theatre during the 1970s, and became one of its leading choreographers creating work such as Sphinx] (1977). In 1988, she founded her own company, Siobhan Davies Dance.

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.

Siobhan Davies
- Artists
- Skills
- Mixing
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
- Intense
- Exposing

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.

Siobhan Davies
- Work
- Moments
- Dance
We need to think on a broader plane, we need to do more than we're doing.

Siobhan Davies
- Think
- Doing
- Broader
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
One of our problems is our sense of discipline - dancers have an extraordinary sense of self-discipline.

Siobhan Davies
- Discipline
- Sense
- Dancers
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.

Siobhan Davies
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.

Siobhan Davies

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

Siobhan Davies
- Idea
- Places
- Started
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
- Play
- Influence
- Existence