Siobhan Davies - Career Stages

Career Stages

• 1950 – Born (Susan Davies)
• As a child visited the Royal Opera House.
• 1967 – Began to take lessons in Martha Graham Technique organised by Robin Howard.
• 1967 – First performance with a company that came to be Dance Theatre Robert Cohan – from the USA Martha Graham Dance Company was the founding artistic director of LCDS, and he set up this performance.
• 1969 – Cohan’s group moved into The Place which allowed dancers and choreographers to be experimental with their work.
• 1970 – She was chosen to tour with Ballet for All which demonstrated contemporary style dance.
• 1972 – Davies’ first two professionally performed works were shown.
• 1975 – Davies was made Associate Choreographer
• Some of her work revolved slightly around the work of Merce Cunningham an American choreographer who broke the rules of modern dance by using a chance process to make material and focusing on the medium of movement.
• 1976 – She went to America with fellow student Richard Alston, where they attended classes in Cunningham technique as well as in ballet.
• 1980 – While dancing and choreographing for LCDT, Davies set up Siobhan Davies Dance Company dancers.
• 1981 – she merged this with Richard Alston and dancers and the Ian Spink group to produce Second stride.
• This allowed her to make smaller and more intimate pieces as well as her ones for LDCT.
• 1984 – Siobhan made Resident Choreographer with LCDT
• 1985 – She left LDCT.
• 1986–1987 – Davies won the Fulbright Arts Fellowship – the first ever to be awarded to a choreographer. She used this to spend nine months traveling the USA with her family.
• 1988 – When she returned she set up the Siobhan Davies Dance company
• She was also made Associate choreographer for the Rambert Dance Company.
• Since 1992 Davies has focused on pieces for her own company.