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Siobhan Davies

"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 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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Donna Grant

"Dance on the stage of life with love in your heart, a smile on your face, and a great vision in your mind."

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Donna Grant

"Dance with your own way with your own tune no matter who watches it."

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Donna Grant

"Dance with the waves of sea and sing with the sky,touch the sands with love and let your mind fly high."

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Donna Grant

"The real dance is a spontaneous body movement that in harmony with the beats of the music in your heart."

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Donna Grant

"Dance as if you got lost in the mystery and beauty of life."

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Donna Grant

"The job of feets is walking, but their hobby is dancing."

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Donna Grant

"In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff."

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Donna Grant

"It's not that I wanted to be an actor; it's that I didn't want to be a dancer! I was trained in traditional Chinese dance, and after working so hard it seemed unfair to just disappear into a group."

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Donna Grant

"The monarchy is finished. It was finished a while ago, but they're still making the corpses dance."

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Donna Grant

"On Saturday afternoons, there was a film, of course, and then we did about four shows between the films. And I would do a tap dance, a little military tap."

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Siobhan Davies
"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."

Dance

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

Discipline

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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."

Dance

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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."

Work

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

Idea

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Siobhan Davies
"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."

People

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Siobhan Davies
"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."

Idea

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Siobhan Davies
"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."

America

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Siobhan Davies
"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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Siobhan Davies
"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."

Work

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