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Siobhan Davies

"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."

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"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."

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Donna Grant

"A solid idea is a firm foundation of a universe construction."

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Donna Grant

"Every idea, both good and bad will definitely have an opposition. The fact that someone mocks your ideas and dreams does not mean they are bad. Take note!"

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Donna Grant

"I feel that the great challenge of our time is the communication of ideas."

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Donna Grant

"Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end."

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Donna Grant

"The poor will look for many excuses why an idea can not be born, but the rich will also look for one excuse why an idea can be born."

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Donna Grant

"If unconventional ideas = sperm, then public opinion = abortion."

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Donna Grant

"A major fault, for example, is the fact that, along with the materialist principle, Darwin introduced into his theory of evolution reactionary Malthusian ideas."

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Donna Grant

"You've never lived what you are thinking, and that isn't good. Only the ideas we actually live are of any value."

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Donna Grant

"There are tree main bulwarks of defence against new thoughts: to pay no heed, to give no credence, and finally to assert that it had already long existed."

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Donna Grant

"I thought you could beat, pummel, and thrash an idea into existence. Under such treatment, of course, any decent idea folds up its paws, turns on its back, fixes its eyes on eternity, and dies."

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Siobhan Davies
"The first 2 weeks, they didn't learn the piece - they went through the process of how the piece was made."

First

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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
"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."

Ideas

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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
"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."

Experience

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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
"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."

Existence

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Siobhan Davies
"They should be working, and there isn't enough work."

Work

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Siobhan Davies
"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."

Work

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