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A Strangers Taste
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1. Title: Dance Work
2. Work: A Strangers Taste
3. Date: 1999
4. Venue: N/A
5. Category: Profile
6. Summary: The title of the work encapsulates Davies' experience of making this work. Working with a very different group of dancers, Davies found herself exploring how to translate her choreographic method to a new context, exploring the common ground between her o ... 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 Six dancers were selected by the Company to recreate Bank (originally made in 1997) and given the opportunity to introduce their ow ...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
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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
Cover Him With Grass
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1. Title: Dance Work
2. Work: Cover Him With Grass
3. Date: 1989
4. Venue: N/A
5. Category: Profile
6. Summary: Touring alongside Drawn Breath, this work for six dancers is set to a sound collage by Kevin Volans in which he cut together music from his natural landscape piece Cover Him With Grass (1982) and the 2nd and 4th sections of his piece Studies in Zulu Histo ... 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
Drawn Breath
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1. Title: Dance Work
2. Work: Drawn Breath
3. Date: 1989
4. Venue: N/A
5. Category: Profile
6. Summary: Drawn Breath toured alongside Cover Him with Grass and is a work for six dancers with a commissioned score by Andrew Poppy. The artist Hugh O'Donnell created an enormous gauze curtain with the image of a breath printed on it; the curtain was gradually dra ... Read more
Jerwood Bank 2003 based on Plants and Ghosts
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1. Title: Creative Project
2. Work: Jerwood Bank 2003 based on Plants and Ghosts
3. Date: 2003
4. Venue: Royal Academy of Dance, London
5. Category: Profile
6. Summary: This was the first Bank Project supported by Jerwood Charitable Foundation. The project gives six dance artists the unique opportunity to experience the creative and working methods of the company. Jerwood Bank 2003 was based on Plants and Ghosts. The pr ... 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
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
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
White Man Sleeps
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1. Title: Dance Work
2. Work: White Man Sleeps
3. Date: 1988
4. Venue: N/A
5. Category: Profile
6. Summary: Made for five dancers, White Man Sleeps was originally choreographed as part of the first programme for her new company in 1988, and set to the string quartet version of Kevin Volans' music. The dance has been revised several times since so it exists in a ... Read more
Wild Translations
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1. Title: Dance Work
2. Work: Wild Translations
3. Date: 1995
4. Venue: N/A
5. Category: Profile
6. Summary: Demonstrating physical opposition is part of the energy that went into the making of Wild Translations. The piece begins with a metal propeller being pulled away from the ground creating a space for the dancers to move in. The movements begin to travel th ... Read more
Wyoming
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1. Title: Dance Work
2. Work: Wyoming
3. Date: 1988
4. Venue: N/A
5. Category: Profile
6. Summary: Wyoming was the first work made for Siobhan Davies Dance Company and was made within 12 months of Embarque, both works were influenced by her travels across the US. Wyoming began by asking the dancers to imagine the different qualities of the surface that ... Read more
13 Different Keys
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1. Title: Dance Work
2. Work: 13 Different Keys
3. Date: 1999
4. Venue: N/A
5. Category: Profile
6. Summary: A collaboration with Artangel, The Royal Ballet and dancers from her own Company, 13 Different Keys was made as a site specific work for the Atlantis Gallery in Brick Lane, London. The work was set on three dance platforms; a main one stretching diagonall ... Read more