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
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
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
Summary: When Davies visited the Arctic with Cape Farewell her overwhelming impression was not so much of the landscape, but the vulnerable, almost incidental body she had brought into this uncompromising environment. In this work Davies focuses on the primal emot ... Read more
Summary: Interview with Siobhan Davies, plus extracts from the Spring 2004 performance(s), which appears on the Siobhan Davies Dance DVD. ... Read more
Venue: Zagreb Youth Theatre (ZKM), Zagreb, Croatia
Category: Moving Image
Summary: Video of performance in the round. Performance dates 21st and 22nd May 2005 as part of 22nd Dance Week Festival, organised by the Croatian Institute for Movement and Dance. Siobhan Davies Dance had been invited by the British Council. ... Read more
Summary: The images on these projection reels were projected from inside the light-boxes. The video imagery was designed specifically to work within the installation itself rather than independently as seen here. The layout within the space, the physicality of the ... Read more
Summary: Projected as a rolling landscape across all seven lightboxes. A landscape passing by, blurred to take away the unimportant details of its content, like seeing it in the corner of your eye; it is the motion and rhythm that is important.
See Projection ... Read more
Summary: This reel contained more frantic imagery, again reflecting the movement of the dancers across the space. This was more of a hectic, broken passing than the smooth tracking of previous imagery. The seascape revealed at the end is from a video Collins shot ... Read more
Summary: This was heavily abstracted footage of the reflection of a light in water turned on its side. It was intended to be something between a sound wave/sono-graph and a shimmering mass of people moving slowly forward from the horizon. This imagery was projecte ... Read more
