Lesley Telford

Lesley Telford is a Canadian choreographer and the Artistic Director of Inverso Productions based in Vancouver. Her work 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 Jiří Kylián,, Paul Lightfoot and Sol Leon, William Forsythe, Ohad Naharin, Johan Inger, Crystal Pite and others. As a choreographer, she has created three works for Ballet BC as well as commissions for Netherlands Dans Theater 1, Ballett Bern, Zfin Malta, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, Ballet Vorpommern, Hubbard Street Dance Company, Compañia Nacional de Danza, and more. She is the founder of her own company, Inverso Productions, through which she has choreographed and produced 4 full evening works which have been presented the Netherlands, Spain and Canada. She also founded the Performance Research Project, 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.

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