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.
From Siobhan Davies
The first 2 weeks, they didn't learn the piece - they went through the process of how the piece was made.
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.
There's a mass of places, really, where the idea started.
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.
They should be working, and there isn't 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.
We need to think on a broader plane, we need to do more than we're doing.
Well, it's not full time - my dancers are only paid for six months of the year in two three-month blocks; but yes, it is possible we could do it in another year.
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