Daily Inspiration Quote by Siobhan Davies

Davies frames creativity less like a lightning bolt and more like a feedback loop with an audience. As a dancer, she knows the brutal math of attention: the work can be good, even valued, and still fail to generate the voltage that keeps a scene alive. Her phrasing is deliberately collective and kinetic - "we" and "do" keep recurring - suggesting an ecology rather than a lone-genius myth. Value alone is static; excitement is contagious.

The subtext is a quiet anxiety about cultural relevance. "We need to do more" isn’t just ambition; it’s an admission that being respected isn’t the same as being felt. In contemporary dance, where funding bodies, critics, and loyal insiders can form a protective bubble, Davies is basically saying: admiration from the usual suspects won’t sustain you. You have to make the work legible as an event to people who don’t already speak the language.

There’s also a savvy critique of the romantic idea that artists create in isolation and then the world catches up. Davies flips that: the public isn’t an afterthought, it’s a generator. "That excitement shines back on us" recognizes the performer’s dependence on response - not just applause, but the kind of cultural buzz that returns as resources, opportunities, and morale. Energy, here, is political and practical: excitement buys time, and time buys risk.

"Widen our creativity" lands as the real agenda. She’s not chasing novelty for its own sake; she’s arguing for expansion - in audiences, in forms, in the permission to keep evolving.