Daily Inspiration Quote by Siobhan Davies

Davies is pushing back against the most seductive trap in contemporary art: the idea that authenticity equals autobiography. In dance, that trap is even tighter because the body is both instrument and archive. “My own experience in dance” sounds like a safe brief, a tidy loop of expertise and identity. She calls it what it is: a track. A groove worn into the floor by repetition, by mastery, by the comfort of knowing exactly what your body can already prove.

The pivot in her sentence is where the ambition lives. She doesn’t say she wants to escape her experience; she refuses to let it be the only engine. The subtext is a quiet critique of an arts culture that rewards personal narrative as proof of legitimacy, and of training systems that overvalue technique as destination rather than vehicle. If you only choreograph from what you already know, your work becomes a résumé in motion.

Her phrasing makes dance the active force: not what she makes, but where it can take her. That flips authorship. Dance isn’t a diary; it’s a method of thinking, a research tool, a way to be changed. Coming from a choreographer known for rigorous, exploratory work, the line reads like a manifesto for curiosity over brand. It insists that the point of practice isn’t to circle your own identity more precisely, but to risk being led somewhere unfamiliar - aesthetically, politically, even emotionally - by the very medium you thought you controlled.