Daily Inspiration Quote by Siobhan Davies

A dancer asking for a “broader plane” isn’t reaching for corporate jargon so much as naming a bodily truth: if you keep moving in the same narrow groove, you stop discovering anything. Siobhan Davies’ line lands with the urgency of rehearsal-room pragmatism. It’s not dreamy abstraction; it’s a demand for scale. “Think” and “do” are paired like choreography and performance, idea and execution. She’s calling out the comfortable gap where ambitious talk lives without the harder work of changing practice.

The subtext is impatience with incrementalism. “More than we’re doing” suggests a field that’s busy but not necessarily advancing - producing, touring, training, yet circling familiar aesthetics, familiar funding models, familiar gatekeepers. Coming from a dancer, the phrase “broader plane” also quietly rebukes the notion that dance is only physical. Davies is insisting on dance as an intellectual and civic activity: a way of organizing attention, community, and risk.

Context matters: contemporary dance in Britain has long existed in tension with institutions that love innovation as a brand but fear it as a budget line. Davies’ career, rooted in rigorous experimentation and interdisciplinary collaboration, gives the quote its edge. She’s not asking for vague openness; she’s asking for structural imagination - new partnerships, new audiences, new languages for value. The sentence reads like a warm-up that’s also a warning: stretch the frame, or the work will calcify.