Amici Dance Theatre Company

WOW what a week! A huge THANK YOU to everyone who came to see Our Time, shared lovely comments & reviews and supported the show. We are so proud of the entire company, creative & production team and everyone who came together to make Our Time happen! Thank you @shaneaur for these wonderful photos📷

Come and dance with us at our Open Workshop 🌟 Tickets are now live to come and take part in Amici’s next Open Workshop. Whether you are a dancer, performer or just curious to move, come and explore Amici’s inclusive, joyful approach to dance! 🗓️ Wednesday 10 June ⏱️ 7pm-9pm 📍 Lyric Hammersmith Book you free ticket via the link in our bio 🔗

Every week in term time Amici and Young Amici meet @lyrichammersmith for company classes. When we are not rehearsing for a production we work with dance techniques and movement improvisation. Every week is different and we never know what each person’s creativity will spark. Always, without fail there is something new and exciting to witness. Something moving, funny and real. People are what make Amici. Here are some of our dancers. 📷 with thanks to @shaneaur for photos @lamoli77 Young Amici Artistic Dir. @poeticmatterdance Amici Artistic Dir. @turtlekeyarts Producers Image description: 1. Filippo stands in the foreground and extends his arms wide. 3 dancers behind him mirror his movements 2. Segen, from a seated position in her wheelchair leans towards Linda who is folded over, arms extended 3. John and Colm kneel on the floor, hands intertwined. Richard seated behind reaches towards them 4. Linda moves with one arm held to the side, the other curved in front of her 5. Ellie, John and Roy move around each other gesturing with their hands 6. Wilma embraces David is seated in his wheelchair. They look at the camera smiling #inclusivedancecompany #inclusivedance #danceimprovisation #inclusivedanceclass

We had the best week rehearsing with @indepen_dance for their upcoming production of Tightrope🎪 Indepen-Dance are performing Tightrope for their 30th anniversary at their @gatheredtogetherfestival in September! We can’t wait to go back in July to work with you all again!

Listen now to the final episode of AMICI: Our Story! Listen from the link in our bio🔗 In this episode we'll be hearing excerpts of interviews with our founder, Wolfgang Stange, which he did throughout his career. Thank you all for tuning in each week and listening to the people and stories which make up Amici Dance Theatre Company. During the course of this series we've heard stories from Amici members, associates and audiences. We've listened to the when, how and why of their relationships with Amici. By listening to this podcast you have now also become apart of the Amici history and story! Thanks to the brilliant @alanprimo151 from Primo dvp for creating and putting this series together.

Production announcement 🎭 Tightrope will be performed at Gathered Together - Scotland’s International Inclusive Dance Festival this September! Indepen-dance were delighted to welcome Amici Dance Theatre Company (@amici_dtc ) back to Glasgow last week for an exciting week of rehearsals of Tightrope - a production originally created in 2010 by Amici members and supporting artists, choreographed by Wolfgang Stange. Our Artistic Director, Karen Anderson MBE, was so inspired when she first so the peice that she invited Amici to work with Indepen-dance and perform it in 2012. Reflecting on that experience she says “contributed to early ideas and recognising the need for a festival like Gathered Togeteher for people in Glasgow and Scotland”. As Indepen-dance celebrate our 30th Anniversary, we are thrilled to be sharing Tightrope once again - a peice originally created by Amici to celebrate thier own 30th anniversary back in 2010. 🎪 Tightrope is a touching show that fuses dance, music and circus to tell the story of a 30-year-old circus company who have stuck together struggling against the odds to survive. The circus is used as a platform to challenge perceptions around disability. Amici and Indepen-dance members are currently learning a range of circus-based skills - including juggling, clowning, ariel and acrobatics, taught by professional circus and dance artists. Gathered Together - Scotland’s International Inclusive Dance Festival 🗓️ Wed 2nd - Sat 5th September 2026 📍 Tramway (@glasgowtramway ) ➡️ SWIPE for photos from rehearsals and follow @gatheredtogetherfestival for festival updates 🎧 LISTEN to the latest episode of AMICI: Our Story! On Spotify, A podcast celebrating 45 years of Amici Dance Theatre Company, Our Artistic Director, Karen Anderson MBE, features on ‘Episode 15: The Legacy’, discussing her influence from Amici and the late Wolfgang Stange. Link in Bio

Listen now to the fifteenth episode of AMICI: Our Story! Listen from the link in our bio🔗 In this episode we'll be hearing from three professionals who have been influenced by Amici, Wolfgang and their teachings. It will also include a selection of clips from Wofgang himself! Come back next Wednesday to listen to the last episode! Thanks to the brilliant @alanprimo151 from Primo dvp for creating and putting this series together!

It is with great sadness that we have to share the news that Amici Dance Theatre dancer Colin McLean passed away peacefully on the 9th of April. Colin was a remarkable person, gentle, kind, always with a sparkle in his eye and a story to tell from his rich life. He was well known in the dance community in London, joining Amici in 1999 when his search for a new evening class brought him to a rehearsal at Sands End community centre in the parish where he was catholic priest. The following year he performed with Amici in a Wayne McGregor piece at the Millennium Dome. After joining a contemporary dance class with Nicola Gibbons, he went on to study a diploma in Dance Studies at Trinity Laban and became a sought-after dancer for many contemporary choreographers and dance artists. All the while continuing to work with Amici, which he thought of as his ‘parent company,’ he took part in many performances worldwide on stage, in galleries and on film. He was introduced to Skinner Releasing Technique and worked extensively with Gaby Agis and dancers. He also had a long association with Marie-Gabrielle Rotie and Butoh practice, taking part in workshops and performances right into the last year of his life. We have wonderful memories of Colin spanning his 27 years of dancing with Amici. The many productions and workshops he took part in and his unfailing belief in Wolfgang and the company. Colin made his last performance with Amici in October 2025 in Our Time, where he danced a moving duet with Young Amici dancer Filippo. This was remarkably just one month before his 91st birthday which he also celebrated with the company. Colin will be greatly missed but remembered for his generous and inquisitive spirit; the beauty and grace in everything he did as a dancer, a priest and as a dear friend. We were privileged to dance with him. Rest well Colin and we will dance again. Elaine, Ingrid and the Amici Trustees Ali, Charlotte, Turtle Key Arts and the Creative Team

Listen now to the fourteenth episode of AMICI: Our Story! Listen from the link in our bio🔗 In this episode we'll be exploring Amici's founder and late Artistic Director, Wolfgang Stange's great mentor and teacher, the Austrian born dancer and choreographer Hilde Holger. Come back every Wednesday to listen to the next episode. Thanks to the brilliant @alanprimo151 from Primo dvp for creating and putting this series together!

Listen now to the thirteenth episode of AMICI: Our Story! Listen from the link in our bio🔗 In this episode we'll be hearing from audience members who have watched Amici for many years and also from those who watched Amici for the first time with our production of Our Time. Come back every Wednesday to listen to the next episode. Thanks to the brilliant @alanprimo151 from Primo dvp for creating and putting this series together!

As our Dance Together project begins to draw to a close, we would like to shine a light on the brilliant team of Associate Artists, workshop leaders and assistants who have delivered the workshops and helped to make the project such a success🌟 We would also like to thank the @hfcouncil King Charles III Coronation Youth Fund which has supported the project this year, and allowed us to expand and offer 8 schools free Amici workshops this term! We still have one more sharing to go, so stay tuned for more Dance Together updates soon🙌

Listen now to the twelth episode of AMICI: Our Story! Listen from the link in our bio🔗 In this episode you'll hear all about how Roehampton is connected to Amici through some of its members, old and new! Come back every Wednesday to listen to the next episode. Thanks to the brilliant @alanprimo151 from Primo dvp for creating and putting this series together!