English - Dancer | 1950 -
One of our problems is our sense of discipline - dancers have an extraordinary sense of self-discipline.
Siobhan Davies
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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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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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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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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.
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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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The first 2 weeks, they didn't learn the piece - they went through the process of how the piece was made.
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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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There's a mass of places, really, where the idea started.
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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.
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They should be working, and there isn't enough work.
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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.
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