top of page
"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."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Class quotes

"I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff-box from an emperor."

"The middle class were invented to give the poor hope; the poor, to make the rich feel special; the rich, to humble the middle class."

"But I do not admit the comparison between your slaves and even the lowest class of European free labourers, for the former are allowed the exercise of no faculties but those which they enjoy in common with the brutes that perish."

"Yes, I was a parish priest for five years. I was a curate in a large working class parish in Bristol and the Vicar of a village in Kent."

"For simplicity one can think of the + class as having one extra base at some point or other in the genetic message and the - class as having one too few."

"I like leaping around on stage as long as it's done with class. None of this jumping up in the air and doing the splits."

"Clinton left the White House with all the class of an XFL halftime show."

"The incognito of lower class employment is an effective cloak for any dagger one might wish to hide."
Explore more quotes by Siobhan Davies

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

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."
bottom of page