Jerwood Bank 2008 – Siobhan Davies Dance

Susan Hitch
Linguist and Broadcaster
As an academic, Susan has written on Alfred the Great’s ninth century programme of translating important books from Latin into Anglo-Saxon English, and on women’s writing in the Renaissance. But her curiosity about languages and how language itself works goes back further in her own life, to a childhood in Japan, Cuba, Greece and Germany, travelling between places and between language; later she lived in Algeria, Brazil and Poland.
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The lectures, for me, were like provocations, in the best sense. Very stimulating bodies of knowledge were shared and we were able to draw parallels or links, as we liked and in our own way. We didn’t formally relate the information to our practices but did make connections in quite open-ended discussions with the practitioners. It was interesting to simply let that information be there and to allow connections to occur without forcing them. Read more >