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Siobhan Davies

"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."

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"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."

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Donna Grant

"In an unfathomable expanse of universe supporting galaxies of star systems with orbiting planets innumerable, I am nothing. And yet to the few bodies encircling my tiny little spot in the world, I am essential."

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Donna Grant

"If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning."

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Donna Grant

"Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present."

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Donna Grant

"I am alive because you want me to."

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Donna Grant

"It is a subliminal thing. It is the tick of a clock that has ticked so long one no longer notices. Something is in a room when a man lives in it. Something is not in the room when a man is dead in it."

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Donna Grant

"Each individual is born into life as a creation from the source, and as an inhabitant and visitor to this planet."

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Donna Grant

"I'm not dead yet, just in a state of rapid decay, who isn't?"

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Donna Grant

"Life before consciousness was like blank paper, so be it."

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Donna Grant

"We live to live."

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Donna Grant

"The massive lump of flesh that has created you, me, and maybe, animals, everything that has life will forever live."

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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."

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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."

Class

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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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