News & Events
Aiming High
Date posted: Friday, October 23rd, 2009
We have been commissioned by Lewisham Libraries Service to develop a new Saturday morning arts club for young people who have profound and complex disabilities. This exciting new development will be a part of the Aiming High for Disabled Children programme.
Gatherings, workshops and performances become platforms for an exploration and sharing of pre-occupations. For the older company members: how shall we grow old? How shall we be seen to grow old? For young disabled participants: How can we have the same opportunities as my brothers and sisters?
An Afternoon/Evening in the Company of Will Gaines
Date posted: Friday, October 16th, 2009
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
Date posted: Friday, October 16th, 2009
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
Date posted: Friday, October 16th, 2009
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.