Entelechy is a participatory arts company based in south east London. Entelechy works with people of all ages, abilities and backgrounds to produce high quality theatre, music, dance and video events and performances.
The company is skilled in creating work which brings together people who wouldn’t usually meet.
Different Abilities

Entelechy’s Night Flights programme works with young people who have complex disabilities developing innovative and risk taking dance, theatre and video work.
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Different Backgrounds

Seven Ages is a cross-generational programme that brings together older people from the diverse communities of south east London.
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One Connection

The Big Chair Dance brought together older people from residential homes, sheltered housing schemes ad day centres to perform specially commissioned dance pieces for the chair and the older body.
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Latest News
March 22, 2010 - Dancing in the Moonlight
continued Entelechy’s groundbreaking programme of Tea Dances for the 21st Century. The event featured the launch of Big Chair/ Little Chair dances choreographed by Southbank choreographer in residence Gauri Sharma Tripathi , six year-olds from Baring Primary School and members of Entelechy’s elders company. The packed audience included over fifty homebound older people who enjoyed [...]
“Life can be very samey, you walk down every high street and it’s the same, with Entelechy there is something different going on.”


