When was siobhan davies born

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Musically, too, she will often work initially without the score, and only later set the movement to cues in the music. She has worked mainly with contemporary scores frequently commissioned , but more recently she has also used pre-classical music: Domenico Scarlatti for The Art of Touch , Handel for Affections , and Marais for Thirteen Different Keys She has also drawn on sign language as a source of gesture, in Different Trains for example and also in Plants and Ghosts , admiring its articulacy and precision.

Davies prefers to work with mature, experienced dancers, and many of her exceptional dancers have had long-standing relationships with the company. On the one hand, in the process of creating a work, their experience and familiarity enables both dancers and choreographer to quickly reach a level of tacit understanding of what to work on and how to work together.

On the other, Davies enjoys using the particular contributions of her dancers in creating a piece, working with material that they generate in rehearsal. The most objective physical language — the crafting and shaping of weight, energy and placement — can lead to a subjective world of dreams, desires and memories. The move outside the proscenium stage was partly motivated by a desire to explore a different arena for choreography, Davies feeling that she had answered some of her own questions about choreographing for the theatre stage.

But it was also to experiment with a different connection between audience and performer, with a less divisive environment that the proscemium theatre, possibly also with less preset expectations. And it is with these subtleties that Davies, preferring allusion and suggestion to statement and message, paints the interior emotional landscape that so often seems submerged just beneath the surface of her works. Almost paradoxically, in her work the most objective physical language — the crafting and shaping of weight, energy and placement — can lead to a subjective world of dreams, desires and memories.

Biography Siobhan Davies has long been one of the foremost figures in British dance, with a professional career stretching back over 30 years. Home Privacy policy Sitemap Contact. Her father, Graham, owned a small textile business. She began her education at the Queensgate School for Girls. She briefly studied at the Hammersmith College of Art. She then enrolled at the London Contemporary Dance School. She soon changed her first name from Susan to Siobhan, because there was another dancer called Sue Davies.

In , she was promoted to the position of associate choreographer. In , she spent a few months performing in New York City. In , she started a small company, called Siobhan Davies and Dancers. Two years later, she teamed up with choreographers Ian Spink and Richard Alston. Together, they formed Second Stride, a touring dance company based in the United States.

In , she became the head choreographer of the London Contemporary Dance Theatre.