Siobhan Davies

Dancer and choreographer, born in London, UK. She studied art and then modern dance at the London Contemporary Dance School, and joined the company in 1969, later becoming joint director and resident choreographer. She started her own company in 1981, joined with Ian Spink and Richard Alston to found Second Stride, and launched her own company again in 1988. Her works include Relay (1972), Plainsong (1981), and Wyoming (1988). Among later works are The Art of Touch (1996), Bank (1997), Eighty-Eight (1998), and Plants and Ghosts (2002). In 2006 she toured with a new show, In Plain Clothes. She has twice received the Laurence Olivier Award for outstanding achievement in dance (1993, 1996).

Siobhan Davies (born 1950 and often known as Sue Davies) was a dancer with the London Contemporary Dance Theatre during the 1970s, then becoming one of its leading choreographers before founding her own company — the Siobhan Davies Dance Company — in 1988.

First training in art, Davies was one of the first year's intake of full-time students at the London School of Contemporary Dance.