Siobhan Davies Quotes

In those days, male dancers were a rarer breed than women. as they are still today, A good male dancer, one as strong as we were, was very difficult to come by if you couldn't afford to pay them.

I frequently go to the ballet, but I don't miss it in the sense that I wish I were still dancing.

My mum took me to the ballet at three, and that was the only time I sat still, with jaw open, mesmerised. She brought me home, and I wouldn't stop dancing.

A good dancer is an educated one, so don't abandon school.

I was really creative. I started to dance very young. I loved to dance. I begged my mother to put me into dance classes, and finally, in third grade, she did. Tap and jazz, but not ballet.

Growing up in Niagara Falls, Ontario, I took classes as a young girl and became very serious about ballet, and also performed with a local company, although it wasn't a professional company.

I did tap dancing and stuff like that at drama school. I did ballet as well. My dance teacher and I didn't necessarily get along all that well sometimes. She's brilliant... but it's just because I don't like wearing tights that I put up a bit of a fight there, I think.

I began to fear that the Graham work was not in lots of ways sufficient for me. I suppose it came about from looking at other dancing and being involved with the ballet - something about the air and the way she thought about dancing.

In the rest of Europe, dance is seen as a sport and in the UK it's seen as an art. And art isn't subsidised in the same way sport is.

I've never looked at what I do as show business, I guess, because of my connection to the art and how I was introduced to the dance.

If I am expected to play a dancer, I will learn dancing but won't do the random, meaningless dancing.

If I avoid anything, it's that I don't really go to places that are like a little corner of England. I also never mind going to a dance show because I love it all so much.

However, the moral center of New York City, I believe, is the New York City Ballet.

I was a late bloomer, but I had a career as a contemporary dancer before that, so I had some kind of connection to this world. But I was always a little more in love with the drama of dancing than the aesthetics, so I thought, 'Why don't you give it a chance if you think you can do it a little different?'

There's no point pretending that all of Martha Graham's pieces are equally strong.

'So You Think You Can Dance' comes on as a high-minded leap up the evolutionary ladder from other reality shows - on this one, you're supposed to learn something, and the guest judges are fellow dance professionals rather than actual celebrities.

I wanted to be a professional dancer for a period of time, and I did a lot of dancing and choreography and got paid for it.

It's important for me to put out things that I think are good - I want to be a fan of my own stuff. I also want my live shows to be really awesome, and dance is such an important element for me and my performances.

The good thing about being an actor, and the gift of being an actor, is that you are beautifully forced to see the world with different eyes.

Dancing is the last sport with no sponsor.

I wanted to do dance with the same seriousness as art was done and acknowledged, not with the entertainment factor that is always connected to theater and film.

I'm very smart when it comes to choosing dancers and trying to show the world that there's a whole lot of dancing going on.

It doesn't matter what medium I perform, I just love to perform in general, if it's good work.

Today, dancers have so much more information and are much more mobile. Kids are traveling everywhere to go to summer programs, funding themselves with Kickstarter - putting their dreams on the Internet and seeing if they will pan out.

I found I loved musicals as much or more than the pure dance world. I also think I became tired of dancing for other dancers.