Siobhan Davies and David Hinton in Conversation with Claudia Kappenberg, Part 1

Abstract

Siobhan Davies (SD): You'd see someone who has been at work for over forty years. I am enjoying all the experiences which have helped me get this far, but I went through a period of time when I felt that I needed to dissolve them all and not let the new work be weighed down by the previous works' failings! However, now I enjoy the remembering and seeing all the long threads and the stuff that thrived from work to work. Then (and now) I wanted to find out how to work and make with other people, and dance has been the medium that I find continually beguiling. I enjoy the doing of dance and the thinking within and around it. Dance, and all that it relates to, has become the mulch I can now draw down from.Initially I made work for theatres and also worked with the traditional but formidable companions to dance, design and music. As a young maker, I was conscious how strongly these two companion arts could shape my work, but over time I felt as if all the fine detail, the nuanced behaviors that can be revealed by people moving, were swamped by the customary forms put in place to support dance making. I wondered what would happen if I dismantled those relationships, or if I let a performance of

Postscript

“…The multiple screenings of the work in a wide variety of contexts and the many responses to the work (as illustrated by the articles in this volume) might suggest that this is a non-issue; but how work is received, critiqued, and appreciated does matter to artists, particularly those artists who are working across disciplinary boundaries, or artists developing "a coalition of practices" that, according to Davies "makes them bolder." 12 Hinton notes how the screening conditions can alter and detract from the subtleties of the film quality, the grain of the film, and the lightingall of which impact on its reception. However, Davies also talks about the beauty of the different contexts in which the film is viewed; ATCH "transports" the viewer, but how it is received is deeply informed by and is situated within the wider context in which it is screened.…”