36 Quotes by 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.

We need to find the money to do it again, but there was such a genuine interest among the dancers who did come forward that I feel we should.

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.

Two of them were chosen already, because they were dancers I'd seen coming to class and performing regularly, but not having enough work.

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.

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

There's a hunger for learning, and I think that dancers are wonderful in their ability to turn round and say 'every day is a learning day'.

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.

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.