Siobhan Davies
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.Collection: Learning
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.Collection: Dance
One of our problems is our sense of discipline - dancers have an extraordinary sense of self-discipline.Collection: Self
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.Collection: Track
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.Collection: Artist
We need to think on a broader plane, we need to do more than we're doing.Collection: Thinking
There's a mass of places, really, where the idea started.Collection: Ideas
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.Collection: Block
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.Collection: Independent
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.Collection: Acceptance
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.Collection: Cells
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.Collection: Ideas
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.Collection: Dance