Lesley Telford
Workshop Description
This workshop is focused on the physicality and spatial structures of emotional states. We will build upon improvised tasks leading into self-led individual phrases as well as learn and adapt set choreographic language. This work will include group explorations and dynamics manipulating the choreographic material.
BIO
Through Lesley’s choreographic work she explores the physicality and spatial structures of emotional states at the intersection of dance, the visual arts, text and film. Her work has been described as having “a profound way of tapping into very deep recesses of our emotional and intellectual landscapes”. She combines impulse-based physicality with sensitivity to the minute relationships between performers and their environment.
As an educator and mentor, she has a long-standing commitment in support of emerging dance artists. To further this purpose Inverso has developed outreach and professional platforms to provide valuable opportunities and experience. She has taught internationally in many companies and schools.
Lesley finished her studies in Montreal at L´École Supérieur de Danse du Québec before joining the company Les Grands Ballets Canadiens. She went on to dance with Nacho Duato´s Compañia Nacional de Danza in Madrid, Spain. Most recently she danced with Netherlands Dans Theater 1. Lesley has a Master of Arts in Cultural Production from the University of Salzburg and the Mozarteum.
Season 2021/22 will include new commissions from Les Grands Ballets Canadiens and her third creation for Ballet BC. She has also created works for Netherlands Dans Theater 1, Hubbard Street Dance Company 2, Compañia Nacional de Danza 2, Ballet Vorpommern, International Project for Dance in Rome- DAF, Butler Ballet, University of Utah, and Arts Umbrella Dance Company.
She founded her own company, Inverso Productions, in 2012 to experiment with other art forms and ways of creating dance. She has worked with many collaborators including scenographer Yoko Seyama, writer Barbara Adler, videographer David Cooper and composer James Meger among others. Through Inverso Productions she has produced and choreographed two full-length works: Brittle Failure, which has been a part of tours and festivals in Spain, the Netherlands and Canada and Spooky Action, which recently premiered in Canada to enthusiastic reviews. Her work has been presented in the CaDance Festival and Korzo Theatre in the Netherlands, International Festival Madrid en Danza and the Reina Sophia Museum in Spain, the Chutzpah Festival, the Banff Festival of the Arts, the Gothenburg Dance and Theatre Festival, the Schmiede Festival, EDAM Choreographic Series, the Fluid Festival in Calgary, and the Vancouver International Dance Festival.
lesleytelford.com
This workshop is focused on the physicality and spatial structures of emotional states. We will build upon improvised tasks leading into self-led individual phrases as well as learn and adapt set choreographic language. This work will include group explorations and dynamics manipulating the choreographic material.
BIO
Through Lesley’s choreographic work she explores the physicality and spatial structures of emotional states at the intersection of dance, the visual arts, text and film. Her work has been described as having “a profound way of tapping into very deep recesses of our emotional and intellectual landscapes”. She combines impulse-based physicality with sensitivity to the minute relationships between performers and their environment.
As an educator and mentor, she has a long-standing commitment in support of emerging dance artists. To further this purpose Inverso has developed outreach and professional platforms to provide valuable opportunities and experience. She has taught internationally in many companies and schools.
Lesley finished her studies in Montreal at L´École Supérieur de Danse du Québec before joining the company Les Grands Ballets Canadiens. She went on to dance with Nacho Duato´s Compañia Nacional de Danza in Madrid, Spain. Most recently she danced with Netherlands Dans Theater 1. Lesley has a Master of Arts in Cultural Production from the University of Salzburg and the Mozarteum.
Season 2021/22 will include new commissions from Les Grands Ballets Canadiens and her third creation for Ballet BC. She has also created works for Netherlands Dans Theater 1, Hubbard Street Dance Company 2, Compañia Nacional de Danza 2, Ballet Vorpommern, International Project for Dance in Rome- DAF, Butler Ballet, University of Utah, and Arts Umbrella Dance Company.
She founded her own company, Inverso Productions, in 2012 to experiment with other art forms and ways of creating dance. She has worked with many collaborators including scenographer Yoko Seyama, writer Barbara Adler, videographer David Cooper and composer James Meger among others. Through Inverso Productions she has produced and choreographed two full-length works: Brittle Failure, which has been a part of tours and festivals in Spain, the Netherlands and Canada and Spooky Action, which recently premiered in Canada to enthusiastic reviews. Her work has been presented in the CaDance Festival and Korzo Theatre in the Netherlands, International Festival Madrid en Danza and the Reina Sophia Museum in Spain, the Chutzpah Festival, the Banff Festival of the Arts, the Gothenburg Dance and Theatre Festival, the Schmiede Festival, EDAM Choreographic Series, the Fluid Festival in Calgary, and the Vancouver International Dance Festival.
lesleytelford.com