Top 29 Siobhan Davies Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. The first 2 weeks, they didn't learn the piece - they went through the process of how the piece was made.
Siobhan Davies
#4. Success is relative. We shouldn't compare the financial success between a person born into riches and the one born into abject poverty.
Assegid Habtewold
#5. 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.
Siobhan Davies
#7. The eternal and uneasy relationship between ballet and modern dance endures, but radically altered in tone and intensity.
Robert Gottlieb
#8. If you aren't willing to put your best work out there, write for yourself. Don't ever publish.
Eliza Green
#9. They should be working, and there isn't enough work.
Siobhan Davies
#11. 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
#12. 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.
Siobhan Davies
#13. 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
#14. The worst question is, 'Where do you see yourself in five years?' I don't know. Variety is the spice of life. That's the best way to describe it.
Anton Du Beke
#15. 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
#16. I nodded, pretending to be a hundred times more courageous than I felt.
But that was the thing about courage. Sometimes you had to fake it to feel it.
Lisa Tawn Bergren
#17. 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
#18. But with sea levels rising along the East Coast - a natural phenomenon accelerated by climate change - scientists project that in our lifetimes what was once considered a hundred-year flood will happen every three to twenty years.
Deborah Blum
#19. I want some fact-based evidence about where we came from. Things we consider mysterious need not be attributed to a deity.
Greg Graffin
#20. Nowhere in the Word of God is there any text or passage or line that can be twisted or tortured into teaching that the organic living church of Jesus Christ just prior to His return will not have every right and every power and every obligation that she knew in that early part of the book of Acts.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#21. 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.
Siobhan Davies
#22. We need to think on a broader plane, we need to do more than we're doing.
Siobhan Davies
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. One of our problems is our sense of discipline - dancers have an extraordinary sense of self-discipline.
Siobhan Davies
#27. There's a mass of places, really, where the idea started.
Siobhan Davies
#28. 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.
Siobhan Davies
#29. 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
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