Amici Dance Theatre Company returned to The Lyric, where they are artists in residence, with their new full company production Elegy, a thought-provoking and beautiful show which fused music, dance and text.

Set in contemporary Britain Elegy tells six heart-rending, personal stories of mothers who have lost their children in tragic circumstances. As tales of drug abuse, honour killing, homelessness, illegal immigration, gangland violence and prostitution emerge at the inquest into their children’s deaths, they ask, could they have been prevented?
 
Amici enlisted the help of Director Michael Vale who has worked with the RSC and ENO, Design Consultant Julian Crouch from Improbable and award-winning playwright Julia Pascal, whose previous works includes plays for The National Theatre and for BBC TV and radio. Costume Design by Tina Bicat, who recently received a Critics’ Circle Award for her work on Punchdrunk’s Faust.

There was also a special guest appearance from “up-and-coming” aerial artists Ockham’s Razor who premiered their latest show Arc at this years London International MIME Festival at The Royal Opera House and live traditional Japanese percussion by Nao Masuda.

Amici integrate disabled and non-disabled performers to challenge conventional attitudes to disability and the arts.