'Amici affirms life, creativity and the power of compassion' Clement Crisp (Financial Times)
An Amici Dance Theatre Company workshop at Sands End Community Centre
AMICI Dance Theatre Company is a unique dance theatre company integrating able-bodied & disabled artists and performers.
AMICI was founded in 1980. Since then its productions and workshops have had a major impact challenging conventional attitudes about disability and the arts.
AMICI runs regular classes (once a week during term time) for its 30+ members at The Lyric, Hammersmith, in the newly built Education Room. Amici are the resident community arts company at The Lyric.
AMICI gives workshop residencies, student placements, and performances throughout the year.
'Only if we free ourselves from the existing held view on art and disability in our society, can we be part of the creative process more successfully'
Wolfgang Stange
'AMICI Dance Theatre Company is emphatically, a professional performance company and not a therapy group'
Isabel Wolff (The Times)
'Theatre that says the unsayable'
Ismene Brown (The Daily Telegraph)
'Totally and Utterly Inspiring'
(The Guardian)
AMICI Dance Theatre Company is a registered Charity No: 1058780