Entelechy Arts

After The Storm

mgalindo — Tue, 01 May 2012 15:20:17 +0000

“Be not afeard, the isle is full of noises…” April’s Storm In A Tea Cup transformed The Albany into a Tea Dance under the sea with floating jellyfish-lampshades, tangled fishing nets of wool and roaring sea storms created by audience and cast. Created in collaboration with our sister company, Casa das Fases in Brazil, it featured a tour de force performance by the 7 Ages company creating scenes from The Tempest on film and stage, as well as visiting performers contributing dancing tea trolleys, word and soundscapes.

Storm In A Tea Cup

mgalindo — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 10:27:16 +0000

Our latest Tea Dance is a sell out! On Tuesday 3 April Entelechy Arts & Casa das Fases in association with The Albany present a live performance event to launch The Tempest: a UK-Brazil collaboration between elders from Entelechy in London and elders from Casa das Fases in Londrina. In this Storm In A Tea Cup, digital arts meet tea dance in a swirl of texture, sound, theatre, film and dance.

See the viral here http://vimeo.com/37537106

Watch some of our rehearsals up to the day on the Artistic Director’s blog davidaslater.wordpress.com

LITTLE BOXES OF MEMORIES

admin — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:08:04 +0000

Entelechy will begin work on a major new programme of Little Boxes in March, supported by Heritage Lottery Fund. A team of artists and participants will uncover and share the remembered life and heritage experiences of socially isolated 80 to 100-year-old Londoners, supporting them to create their own ‘little boxes of memories’ – a multi-sensory and highly engaging form of portable theatre. The programme will be co-curated by older, old people and young people who have profound and multiple disabilities and tour London in the autumn.

Please note that the application deadline for the post of Project Co-ordinator has now closed.

Letters to Londrina

mgalindo — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 13:11:09 +0000

An exploratory exchange begins with our sister company Casa das Fases in Brazil.

Entelechy’s south London-based Elders are beginning a multi-sensory correspondence with their peers in Londrina to share their longings, passions and uncover points of contact.

Follow the story on David’s blog.

Coming Soon!

admin — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 14:43:50 +0000

Members only chatroom coming soon! Watch this space…

Entelechy Chatroom

admin — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 14:42:34 +0000

Members only chatroom coming soon!

Saturday Morning Arts Club

admin — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 15:42:55 +0000

Entelechy’s Saturday Morning Arts Club meets regularly at Downham Library in south Lewisham. Club members are young people between the ages of 12 and 18. Most of the group members are multiply disadvantaged. They all have more than one disability, have profound learning difficulties, have difficulties communicating, need high levels of support and may have additional sensory impairments and complex health needs.

The club is an opportunity young people to meet with up with friends and a team of Entelechy artists working together on music, dance and video projects. The work has been developed in collaboration with Lewisham Libraries Service and Greenvale School. Entelechy has recruited teaching assistants from the school to support people’s individual support needs. We provide a door to door transport support to help families access the programme. The work is supported by Lewisham’s ‘Aiming High for Disabled Children’ programme. The club is linked to Entelechy’s Family programme creating opportunities for families to take part in arts activities in venues across south London including Southbank Centre and Siobhan Davies Studios

”In the Entelechy sessions she’s being listened to. She feels able to contribute. She feels so included”

Home Space

admin — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 11:45:41 +0000

Where People of similar backgrounds meet to give form to their ideas, interests and needs
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21st Century Tea Dances

admin — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 15:40:25 +0000

Our experimental programme returned in March to bring the 21st Century Tea Dance experience live to our audiences in home and community settings. Co-curated by The Spitz, a ground-breaking event on 29 March 2011 at Manley Court Nursing Centre hosted live jazz in residents’ bedrooms and ballroom dancing in their corridors with world-class musicians from Ronnie Scott’s.
We also brought a live VJ, Caribbean storytelling and a rocking band to Deptford Mission for our Tea Dance there on 17 March. “The most fantastic day I’ve had,” said one elderly participant.

On 9 April, our company members showed the results of their work with Upswing aerial company at a special circus-themed Tea Dance at The Albany. Ida Barr was back, our own Rosie and artist Zena Edwards brought tears to everybody’s eyes performing heartfelt poetry, and Manley Court’s own resident Frank Sinatra brought the house down, singing from his wheelchair with teenager rockers The Nearly Perfect.

Shared Space

admin — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 12:46:48 +0000

Encounters between different participant groups and their peers which offer a safe arena in which to reflect on experience and exchange ideas.
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Seven Ages

admin — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 00:52:33 +0000

A multi-stranded programme of creative encounters working with older people aged between 60 and 100 years old. Musicians, dance and spoken word artists work with active older peer mentors to develop and support work with frail older, old people.

Entelechy has established a weekly programme of dance, music and story-telling events with older, old people living in the Deptford and New Cross neighbourhoods of south east London, in close collaboration with a number of local groups including the Age Well Fun Club, Manley Court Residential Home, Deptford Methodist Mission and The Albany Centre.

The programme works with the generation now in their late 80s and 90s who have often been given additional years by medical science. For many this extra time is lived in loneliness and isolation. Space is created for Entelechy Artists to take time to listen to people’s individual needs, supporting people to nurture their talents and interests.

“I’m so proud of myself. I’ve never done anything like this before”

21st Century Tea Dance Programme

admin — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 15:08:24 +0000

Entelechy takes the conventional form of the tea dance and brings it screaming and kicking into the twenty-first century. Dance events mix live music with video, theatre, dance performance, story-telling, tea, cake, social dancing and singing. Programmes are curated by older members of Entelechy’s Seven Ages Company. Guest artists at recent events have included Kora player and multi-instrumentalist Tunde Jegede, legendary Jazz Hoofer Will Gains and the unforgettable Ida Barr.

Events have been developed in collaboration with Lewisham Homebound Library Service to support isolated older people to become involved in arts activities happening in their communities.

“It was wicked. I really, really loved it”

Lab Space

admin — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 12:50:40 +0000

Where we have time and opportunity to experiment, innovate and improvise.
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Little Box of Memories

admin — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 15:19:39 +0000

The Little Box of Memories pilot project is inspired by the methodology of Entelechy’s Brazilian sister company Casa Das Fases. Older performers from Entelechy have built little portable theatre boxes which contain objects that act as prompts to stories from people’s childhoods in the 1940s and 50s. It’s an extremely portable and engaging form of one-on-one theatre. The elders company have been trying out the idea giving performances in local primary schools, Bellingham Summer Fete and in The Clore Ballroom at Southbank Centre.

“A wonderful and unique contribution to the life of our school. It was brilliant. It was fantastic.”

Performance Space

admin — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 12:53:22 +0000

Platforms for Entelechy practitioners to share their art with audiences within and beyond their local neighbourhoods.
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Big Chair Little Chair

mgalindo — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 12:53:16 +0000

The event took place on July 9th at the Southbank, as part of the Big Dance “Dancing stAGE”, which brought together 150 older Londoners. Entelechy’s piece was choreographed by Stella Howard from The Southbank Centre and Rebecca Swift. It included the participation of six year-old children from Baring Primary School, members of Entelechy’s elders company, “Seven Ages”, and frail older people from Morton House.

Dancing in the Moonlight

David — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 11:16:16 +0000

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 a two course meal in the Albany before the show. The event was jointly supported by Lewisham’s Homebound Library Service, Southbank Centre, The Albany and Montage Theatre Arts.

Another Post

admin — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:18:53 +0000

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A post

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an example post for the section

Aiming High

admin — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:18:03 +0000

Seven Ages

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Describe this page here.

Another post

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This is a 2nd post in the Ambient Jam section

Rebecca Swift

admin — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:46:22 +0000

Team member description here.

Maria Galindo

admin — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:45:43 +0000

Another team description here.

David Slater

admin — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:44:56 +0000

Info about David – insert picture as with news/other posts.

Our Team

admin — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:41:04 +0000

Find out about the members of the Entelechy Team here.

An Afternoon/Evening in the Company of Will Gaines

admin — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 10:32:43 +0000

Thursday 22 October, 3pm and 7.30pm

Entelechy Arts Older Peoples’ company in association with the Albany presents a very special event.

Legendary, 82 year old jazz hoofer Will Gaines headlines an incredible line-up including 17 year old hip hop harmonica boy Leon Maddy, Jive Five, a vintage Bollywood act and Montage’s Suppertropers. Enjoy them join in and dance the rest of the night away to the jazz quintet, the Jive Five.

Albany Theatre, Douglas Way, Deptford, London, SE8
Box Office 0208692 4446

Haringey

David — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 10:28:34 +0000

We continue to make and produce work. Since Lattice we have worked with over 50 older and younger artists from Noel Park in Haringey. In July we staged an event in Wood Green Central Library producing an eclectic mix of health living soap opera, Bollywood Chair Dance and Street Dance Bollywood style. Members of the Seven Ages Company took part in the Dance Mob event at the Southbank Centre in late August and the Bollywood Chair Dance was reprised in central London for a Well London Conference at Congress House. The Seven Ages company have started a long term conversation with the Southwark based young people’s company ReAct with an inter-generational workshop in the Royal Festival Hall. Seven Ages and are now preparing to host their next large-scale performance event: An afternoon/evening in the company of Will Gaines. The show includes the older chair dancers from Haringey.

People

David — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 09:28:13 +0000

Sybil’s granddaughter Aisa stands centre stage at the beginning of “Lattice” (Seven Ages Company Albany Theatre June 2009) She breaks the silence. “I am pausing. I am deep in thought” Collectively as a company we are pausing. We are deep in thought. We have just finished an extraordinarily productive eighteen months. From the Market project working with young people who have complex disabilities on a multi-media heritage exhibition to the Big Chair Dance involving 250 older performers from 12 London Boroughs we have continued to meet and work with new participants, artists and audiences. Entelechy is becoming an extraordinary collection of people. Gathering ‘tribes’ of Londoners who have very different backgrounds and life experiences; working people who want to come together collectively to unlock their creative potential is at the core of our work. We are building long-tem, sustained relationships with people working both intimately in front rooms and kitchens and expansively performing to audiences of thousands in major arts venues.

at home

admin — Fri, 08 May 2009 12:43:25 +0000

“I felt at home, I felt more at home than I do normally anywhere else”