Answer the Question: 'Where are your training grounds?': Siobhan Davies

Davies, a choreographer and the artistic director of Siobhan Davies Dance, notes that, to some extent, what most people call training, she would call learning. After studying Martha Graham Technique in the 1960s, she was asked to choreograph work for London Contemporary Dance School. It was in the c...

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Published inTheatre, dance and performance training Vol. 1; no. 1; p. 124
Main Author Davies, Siobhan
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Abingdon Taylor & Francis Ltd 01.03.2010
Subjects
Alston, Richard
Artistic directors
Choreographers
Education
Graham technique
Influences
Modern Dance
Training
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Summary:Davies, a choreographer and the artistic director of Siobhan Davies Dance, notes that, to some extent, what most people call training, she would call learning. After studying Martha Graham Technique in the 1960s, she was asked to choreograph work for London Contemporary Dance School. It was in the creation of this work that she discovered that the learning to which she applied herself in the morning class was not the vocabulary she was using when she made movement. She credits three major forces of learning at that point: London Contemporary Dance, Richard Alston's work, and her own work, in which she was sourcing material through feeling and what she saw.
ISSN:1944-3927
1944-3919