Inverso Productions

“Windshear” is a virtuosic solo that is inspired by fighting the forces against us. An industrial sized fan accompanies the solo with music by Phillip Glass. It was first performed at the 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 which will now be performed by Brazilian artist Ysadora Dias.

 

“If I were 2” was originally created for Ballet BC in 2017 and performed by Emily Chessa and Brandon Alley. The work is inspired by the Narcissus myth and explores the subjective nature of our perceptions of others. Coming back to this piece after 8 years, it takes on another meaning, especially after reading Doppelgänger by Naomi Klein. The sense of mirroring can be interpreted as both an intimate exchange as well as reflecting our political climate of distortion that warps reality. The soundtrack is layered text by writer and performer, Barbara Adler. How much of what we see in others is just a reflection, refraction or distortion of our own opinions? It is special to come back to this work with Vancouver performers, Eowynn and Isak Enquist.

The nature of “the way you look” was eloquently presented in the interactions of these two bodies moving beneath a shiny reflective surface: looking into mirrors, mirroring each other, moving one another, almost as inanimate objects, using one another to express themselves. … It made me think of how it is impossible to ever drop the glass from our own eyes. The last line summed it up perfectly for me “as your breath lays where it halts at my surface”.  Danielle Benzon, Plank Magazine

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Inverso Productions:

Inverso Productions was founded by Lesley Telford to experiment with other art forms and ways of creating dance. Inverso Productions has produced four full-length works: Brittle Failure, which has toured to Spain, the Netherlands and Canada, Spooky Action, Gem-like and the current intergenerational project, Borrowed Time. Inverso also hosts the LIFT Intergenerational Festival and offers creative residencies for emerging professional dance artists through Performance Research Project.

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: Eowynn Enquist

Eowynn Enquist (She/Her) is a freelance artist and multidisciplinary performer. Over the past 10 years Eowynn has worked professionally with over 25 choreographers/companies, developing full length dance productions that continue to shape and imprint the ecology of the contemporary dance sector. She is currently touring nationally and internationally with; Action at a Distance, Anne Plamondon Productions (Montréal, OB), Anya Saugstad, Corporeal Imago, Isak Enquist (Little Room Productions) and Rachel Meyer. Most recently Eowynn assisted Noam Gagnon (Vision Impure Compagnie), with choreography for the new theatre production of 'Ce Que Je Sais De Vrai, by Theatre la seizieme.

She is currently on faculty at The Goh Ballet and most recently worked with Lamon Dance Company as rehearsal director. Eowynn also holds her BFA in contemporary dance from Simon Fraser University.In 2022 Eowynn received a Professional development grant to train in aerial rope acrobatics with Gabrielle Martin. She is now performing with Gabrielle and Jeremiah's company Corporeal Imago - 24 shows this August 2026 at Scotland's Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

During the pandemic Eowynn co-created a collective that created a full length live-stream dance production entitled WANTED for audiences at home, presented by Vancouver International Dance Festival.Eowynn continues to create dance for film in collaboration with filmmaker Darryl Ahye, Lula-Belle Jedynak, and choreographer Isak Enquist. These collaborations have been presented at: Bloom Festival with Mascall Dance, Innovate Dance Showcase, Zêzere Cinedança Festival(Portugal) and Made in Canada Festival (Toronto) where they were awarded the Moving Picture Award. As a practicing actor, Eowynn trains weekly at Act2 studios, with coach Nadine Wright. Eowynn always seeks creation and performance opportunities that ask her to connect to her most courageous and vulnerable self.

 

Performer: Isak Doran Enquist

Isak Doran Enquist is a movement artist, choreographer, actor, teacher, and experimental sound designer based on the unceded territories of the Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh, Skwxwú7mesh, and xʷməθkwəy̓əm Nations. Originally raised in Ktunaxa territory, he began his formal training in Shotokan Karate-Do before pursuing post-secondary dance education at Simon Fraser University and Modus Operandi.

Isak has performed both nationally and internationally with a range of Canadian performing companies, including Out Innerspace, Companie Vision Impure, Shay Kuebler Radical System Art, Mahaila Patterson-O’Brien, Amber Funk Barton, Mascall Dance, Generous Mess, Cristina Bucci, Anne Plamondon Productions, and Corporeal Imago.

He is currently on faculty at Vancouver’s Harbour Dance Centre, Lamon Dance Company, and Goh Ballet Academy, and is also a guest teacher with the Training Society of Vancouver, M.O. Link, and GötesborgOperan Danskompani (Sweden), among others.

 

Performer: Ysadora Dias

Ysadora Dias is an emerging artist based in so-called Vancouver, whose creative spark lies in improvisation, deeply inspired by her Brazilian roots and culture. Her cultural background informs every aspect of her artistic practice, shaping the way she moves, creates, and connects with community. Since moving to Vancouver, she has collaborated with numerous artists and toured with MascallDance across Canada and New Zealand. Ysa has also performed with Coastal City Ballet, Amok Project, Co. Erasga, Performance Research Project/ Inverso Productions, Raven Spirit Dance, and Action at Distance.