Inverso Productions

Windhshear is a virtuosic work that was inspired by the fight with the forces against us. An industrial sized fan accompanies the solo with music by Phillip Glass. It was first performed at Saint Sauveur Festival with a great audience reception. The work was created with and for Eden Solomon, a Quebecois Ethiopian dancer who has pushed her limits creating this exciting and challenging work.

If I were 2 explores the subjective nature of our perceptions of others. Coming back to this work after 7 years, it takes on another meaning, especially after reading doppelgänger by Naomi Klein. The sense of mirroring has both an intimate sense and may be considered in our political climate of distortion that both reflects and warps reality. The soundtrack is by spoken word writer and performer, Barbara Adler. How much of what we see in others is just a reflection, refraction or distortion of our own opinions. This work will be revisited with the idea of how the heightened sensationalism of spectatorship has a call and response of "Look a you, make me".

Choreographer: Lesley Telford
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Lesley Telford is a choreographer and the Artistic Director of Inverso Productions based in Vancouver, on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. Her work has been performed in dance companies internationally and has been described as having “a profound way of tapping into deep recesses of our emotional and intellectual landscapes”. She began her career with Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, worked with Nacho Duato at Compañia Nacional de Danza in Spain and spent over a decade dancing and creating at Nederlands Dans Theatre 1, where she worked with choreographers such as Jiri Kylian, Paul Lightfoot and Sol Leon, William Forsythe, Ohad Naharin, Johan Inger, Crystal Pite and others.

As a choreographer, she has created 3 works for Ballet BC as well as commissions for Ballett Bern, Netherlands Dans Theater 1, Zfin Malta, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, Ballet Vorpommern, Hubbard Street Dance Company 2, Compañia Nacional de Danza 2, and more.

She is the founder of Inverso Productions, through which she has choreographed and produced 4 full evening works which have been presented the Netherlands, Spain and Canada. Inverso also produces Performance Research Project annually, a creative mentorship platform for emerging professional dancers to connect to choreographers. She has a Master of Arts in Cultural Production from the University of Salzburg.

Lighting Designer: James Proudfoot

Composer: Philip Glass (Windshear)

Composer: Barbra Adler (If I Were 2)

Performer: Ysadora Dias (Windshear)

Performer: Eowynn Enquist (If I Were 2)

Performer: Isak Enquist (If I Were 2)