Wolfgang Stange, the founder and Artistic Director of Amici Dance Theatre Company, is no stranger to difficulty. In its early days of existence, the London-based ensemble of able-bodied and disabled performance artists called London’s Roof Top Theatre home. ‘We had to carry the wheelchairs up the stairs,’ Stange recollects.
In the years since, the company has survived funding difficulties and the general challenges brought by bringing people from a diversity of backgrounds, needs and abilities together on a weekly basis. However, Stange takes a philosophical approach to the challenges, embraces the successes and expects the company to continue to develop in an organic manner: ‘We have been worried for 23 years, and we are still here,’ he says, ‘and I think that counts for something.’
