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Jerwood Bank 2006 based on In Plain Clothes
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1. Title: Creative Project
2. Work: Jerwood Bank 2006 based on In Plain Clothes
3. Date: 2006
4. Venue: Siobhan Davies Studios, London
5. Category: Profile
6. Summary: The Jerwood Bank Project gives six dance artists the unique opportunity to experience the creative and working methods of the company. In this project, the dancers, selected from over 100 worldwide, received a bursary, and, using the original ideas, quest ... Read more
Affections
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1. Title: Dance Work
2. Work: Affections
3. Date: 1996
4. Venue: N/A
5. Category: Profile
6. Summary: Siobhan Davies asked Gerald Barry, who had composed the music for Trespass, to choose the music for its companion piece Affections. He chose six arias from several Handel operas. The music had a transforming affect on some of the elements and choreography ... Read more
Arctic Heart
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1. Title: Dance Work
2. Work: Arctic Heart
3. Date: 1991
4. Venue: N/A
5. Category: Profile
6. Summary: The dance is a result of a collaboration with American writer Gretel Ehrlich, winner of the 1989 Guggenheim Fellowship, and the British composer John-Marc Gowans. Davies had first worked with Ehrlich on Wyoming, using a previously written essay as a gro ... Read more
Bank 2001 based on the piece Bank
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1. Title: Creative Project
2. Work: Bank 2001 based on the piece Bank
3. Date: 2001
4. Venue: Royal Academy Dance, Battersea, London
5. Category: Profile
6. Summary: Bank 2001 was a new project created by Siobhan Davies Dance to assist the professional development of independent dancers. Six dancers were selected by the Company to recreate Bank (originally made in 1997) and given the opportunity to introduce their ow ... Read more
Bank Philadelphia 2003 based on Bank
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1. Title: Creative Project
2. Work: Bank Philadelphia 2003 based on Bank
3. Date: 2003
4. Venue: N/A
5. Category: Profile
6. Summary: Six independent dancers were selected by the company to recreate Bank (originally made in 1997) and given the opportunity to introduce their own new material. Led by Deborah Saxon and Paul Old, the dancers were guided through the creative and working meth ... Read more
Bank
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1. Title: Dance Work
2. Work: Bank
3. Date: 1997
4. Venue: N/A
5. Category: Profile
6. Summary: A work that used a bank of ideas generated by looking at many visual patterns from different cultures. The dancers began the rehearsal process by imagining the printed pattern within the whole volume of the body or parts of it, the structure of the patter ... Read more
Bird Song
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1. Title: Dance Work
2. Work: Bird Song
3. Date: 2004
4. Venue: N/A
5. Category: Profile
6. Summary: Davies began rehearsals with the dancers listening to phrases from the songs of birds. Later, short pieces of music were introduced into the rehearsal process. The rhythms and textures of these became embedded into the dancers' bodies, creating a clear ph ... Read more
Different Trains
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1. Title: Dance Work
2. Work: Different Trains
3. Date: 1990
4. Venue: N/A
5. Category: Profile
6. Summary: Set to the music of the same name by the American minimalist composer Steve Reich, for live and taped string quartet, taped monologue and sounds of trains, the dance follows the structure of the music (which is in three parts) and draws from the speech wi ... Read more
Eighty Eight
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1. Title: Dance Work
2. Work: Eighty Eight
3. Date: 1998
4. Venue: N/A
5. Category: Profile
6. Summary: Eighty Eight toured alongside Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues in 1998, as an example of a linked programme of Davies' choreography. Eighty Eight and Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues share a similar urban, industrial quality in the combination of movement and desig ... Read more
In Plain Clothes
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1. Title: Dance Work
2. Work: In Plain Clothes
3. Date: 2006
4. Venue: N/A
5. Category: Profile
6. Summary: In Plain Clothes was the first piece to be performed at Siobhan Davies Studios. Both Davies and the dancers wanted to mark the studio, to begin to fill it, not only through the activities of rehearsals but also with the sediment or memory of conversations ... Read more
Jerwood Bank 2007 based on Two Quartets
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1. Title: Creative Project
2. Work: Jerwood Bank 2007 based on Two Quartets
3. Date: 2007
4. Venue: Siobhan Davies Studios, London
5. Category: Profile
6. Summary: The Jerwood Bank Project gives six dance artists the unique opportunity to experience the creative and working methods of the company. Jerwood Bank 2007 was based on Two Quartets, and a significant development for this year's project was the introduction ... Read more
Make-Make
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1. Title: Dance Work
2. Work: Make-Make
3. Date: 1992
4. Venue: N/A
5. Category: Profile
6. Summary: Made for six dancers, the title is taken from the name of an Easter Island god. The piece begins with an image of a confined space, an island with dancers inhabiting it. Their movement is their language of communication. The score comprises unaccompanied ... Read more
Of Oil and Water
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1. Title: Dance Work
2. Work: Of Oil and Water
3. Date: 2000
4. Venue: N/A
5. Category: Profile
6. Summary: Made for eight dancers with music by Orlando Gough, this is Davies' second full-length work. Fast energy, shifting territories and a travellator on stage provides new ways to test the perception of speed and space. The title suggests a play with layers th ... Read more
Plants and Ghosts
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1. Title: Dance Work
2. Work: Plants and Ghosts
3. Date: 2002
4. Venue: N/A
5. Category: Profile
6. Summary: Davies' first work to tour non-theatre spaces it explores connections between performers and audiences in new ways. Made for eight dancers with sound installation by Max Eastley and a humorous accumulative text by Caryl Churchill. The non-theatre spaces t ... Read more
The Art of Touch
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1. Title: Dance Work
2. Work: The Art of Touch
3. Date: 1995
4. Venue: N/A
5. Category: Profile
6. Summary: There were two scores for The Art of Touch; Domenico Scarlatti and a commissioned piece by Matteo Fargion, both written for harpsichord. However, the impetus behind the work came from Francois Couperin who composed a series of pieces to form the hand in p ... Read more
The Glass Blew In
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1. Title: Dance Work
2. Work: The Glass Blew In
3. Date: 1994
4. Venue: N/A
5. Category: Profile
6. Summary: Davies and the dancers began rehearsals by looking at many examples of calligraphy; how a calligrapher waits, holding the pen, before finding the right moment to make a fluid and accurate mark; how the calligrapher balances the hand and moves the pen and ... Read more
Trespass
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1. Title: Dance Work
2. Work: Trespass
3. Date: 1996
4. Venue: N/A
5. Category: Profile
6. Summary: Trespass is the first half of two companion pieces, the second being Affections. David Buckland's designs are constructions that act as extensions to the dancers' bodies. Peter Mumford designed a large light-filled ball, free of wires so it could move. Th ... Read more
Two Quartets
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1. Title: Dance Work
2. Work: Two Quartets
3. Date: 2007
4. Venue: N/A
5. Category: Profile
6. Summary: Two Quartets is a single work comprising two quartets. These were made to be seen as one work and they were created at exactly the same time and both comprise a commissioned score by Matteo Fargion. Davies also collaborated with the fashion designer, Jon ... Read more
Wanting to Tell Stories
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1. Title: Dance Work
2. Work: Wanting to Tell Stories
3. Date: 1993
4. Venue: N/A
5. Category: Profile
6. Summary: A dance for six. Two enormous screens hang, rotate and slide to divide and close off areas of the stage, providing intimate and open spaces, corridors, private and public rooms. The visual and physical influence of edges, corners, corridors and open space ... Read more
White Bird Featherless
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1. Title: Dance Work
2. Work: White Bird Featherless
3. Date: 1992
4. Venue: N/A
5. Category: Profile
6. Summary: Choreographed the same year as Make-Make, White Bird Featherless has a similarly enigmatic quality. The 18th century riddle is played out in the dance through complex games and courtship rituals. Fruit is exchanged between the dancers and disappears then ... Read more