Itcush and Randazzo

Peter Randazzo: “For me, during those years the only reality was being on stage and doing the job. I didn’t care about anything else, the rest was unimportant. When I performed, a lot of the time I was in another zone. One time I walked off stage and thought “that was perfect.” But I couldn’t say what. It’s not something expressed verbally. 

Her dancing was amazing.

One of the most incredible jumps I ever saw. Barry Smith was standing upstage left facing upstage, and as he turned slightly, she leapt onto his shoulder. If you’d seen it as I did, from onstage, you genuinely would not have believed that it happened.

My relationship with Amelia was always only professional. The only time we ever spent was in the studio. You know how in dance there are dance friends and love affairs and so on? But we were never social in any way. She had a whole other life going on.

You work closely together in the dance world and in it you develop friendships, hang out with people, have love affairs. But Amelia didn’t. There was a privacy to her. I wouldn’t be surprised if she was the kind of person who very few people knew well in a lifetime.”

Patricia Beatty: “Above all, she shone in Peter's work. There was something dark in both of them – Peter and Amelia. Amelia didn’t have cruelty, but she didn’t have a kind of innocent joy that I still have and encourage others to preserve in themselves.”