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"Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness."
"Dance like no one is watching, love like you have never been hurt."
"I can't wait to be back on the dance floor. I feel really good about it."
"When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way."
"Once I started dancing, I was not the spoiled brat or the rebellious child that I was as a child."
"No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone."
Explore more quotes by 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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"One of our problems is our sense of discipline - dancers have an extraordinary sense of self-discipline."
"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."
"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."
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