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 Read Quote
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. Siobhan Davies Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
We’re talking about people who’ve already got 3-4, if not 5-6 years’ experience or more, and it’s about trying to help professionals develop, using us as a resource for that development. Siobhan Davies Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Siobhan Davies Read Quote
