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INVERSO SUMMER INTENSIVE
August 4-8, 2025

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Ayman Harper
Dance artist and stager of William Forsythe repertoire internationally 
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Lesley Telford
Artistic Director Inverso Productions Mentor and Choreographer
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Heather Telford
Improvisation and Craniosacral Practitioner
​formerly with Gothenburg Dance Company
Inverso Summer Intensive 2025 

Join us for a deep dive into FORSYTHE & KYLIÁN repertoire and methods! It is a rare chance to experience this work in Vancouver and  learn directly from those who have spent their careers dancing and setting the work of some of the most influential dance artists of our times: William Forsythe and Jiri Kylian.

Ayman Harper will be with us from Berlin. He sets William Forsythe pieces at major companies worldwide. Don't miss this incredible opportunity! Heather Telford is here from Gothenburg, Sweden, where she worked with Gothenburg Dance Company.  She will be sharing Improvisation methods.Lesley Telford is the director of Inverso and this summer she will share the work of Jiri Kylian, who she worked with for more than a decade at Nederlands Dans Theater.

 Inverso Summer Intensive 2025 will focus on personal artistic development and finding new tools for your dance practice. These 5 days are open to students, emerging & professional dance artists (16+). We are grateful to be co-presented by SFU School for the Contemporary Arts on the unceded Coast Salish territories. For more information, please contact [email protected].

Schedule
10-11:30  Improv with Lesley & Heather Telford *all ages/abilities
11:30-12  lunch break
12-3 M-W  Forsythe method and repertoire with Ayman Harper
12-3 Th-F Kylián repertoire with Lesley Telford
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Cost
$450 including GST/ Full intensive
$105 including GST/ Daily morning classes (10-11.30, M-F)  *open to all

No one will be turned away due to lack of funds. Please contact us if a partial scholarship is needed.

TESTIMONIALS:

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Thank-you for sharing your wealth of wisdom, knowledge and kindness with us. I appreciate the gentle way you coax us into  recognizing our vast potential for movement and thus deeper dimensions of who we are.
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Rachel Helten

Independent Artist
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2022 participant

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Thank you so much for such a great intensive, and for leading such a playful and open space:) 
 I found a lot of new imagery and insights in the way both you and Heather explain things, and found new ways to connect the things I’m curious about. I thought it was a great week of summer dancing!

Kluane Peabody

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2022 participant

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Thank you so much for your wonderful energy and generosity through the process. It is a real thrill to share the artistry of dance with professionals who have so much wisdom and experience with dance. 

Sarah Mugglebee

Independent Artist
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2022 participant

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Thank you Lesley and Heather again for the amazing week. I actually played around with the concept of elastics and leaving traces of myself behind during yesterday’s performance and had a lot of fun implementing those ideas. I’m looking forward to playing around with the other concepts/ tools you both have given me :)

Anna Wang-Albini

SFU Dance Student
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2022 participant

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Inverso Productions Society is a registered charity 708998893RR0001.
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Inverso Productions gratefully acknowledges that the land on which we work and create is the unceded territory of the Coast Salish peoples, including the territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish), and səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. We are committed to ongoing learning to be informed allies of Indigineous people.
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