Dancing on the Edge Festival 2021: Inverso Productions/Lesley Telford & Kirsten Wicklund/Peter Smida

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“1:1:1” (phase one)- Inverso Productions/Lesley Telford. Live Work

Work-in-progress;
Inverso is in its first stages of research for our new work: “1:1:1”, which explores perception distortion and the neurological effects of living through a screen. How does our mind play tricks on us in the digital realm? Where can we find harmony in a space that imposes the unreal as real? The dancers are stuck in a set perpendicular relationship as a means to investigate displacement, illusion, and ultimately, the importance of real human contact after a prolonged sense of lack.

Choreographer | Creator: Lesley Telford
Composer: Ferrari, Purcell
Performers: Stéphanie Cyr+ Kiera Hill

Lesley Telford
Lesley Telford is a choreographer, educator and the artistic director of Inverso Productions and Performance Research Project. She is grateful to live and work on the unceded and ancestral territory of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil Waututh people. Her recent work incorporates text, visual art and science and has been described as “tapping into deep recesses of our emotional and intellectual landscapes”. Lesley danced with Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, Compañia Nacional de Danza and Netherlands Dans Theater 1. As a choreographer, she has created works for Ballet BC, Netherlands Dans Theater 1, Hubbard Street Dance Company 2, Compañia Nacional de Danza 2, Ballet Vorpommern, Butler Ballet, International Project for Dance in Rome (DAF), University of Utah and Arts Umbrella Dance Company, among others. Through Inverso, she choreographed and produced 2 full evening works: Brittle Failure and Spooky Action. Her independent work has been presented throughout Europe and Western Canada. She has a Master of Arts in Cultural Production from the University of Salzburg. Inverso is presently creating a new work, “1:1:1” and this upcoming season also includes commissions for Ballet BC and Les Grands Ballets Canadiens. She is thrilled to be back in the theatre with audiences after this long hiatus. lesleytelford.com

Stéphanie Cyr
Stéphanie Cyr is an independent dance artist, tender gender bender and enthusiastic playlist maker. The stories they tell are heavily influenced by pop + internet culture from a personal queer perspective. Often playing with scale, sci-fi and the everyday, they make dances for objects and bodies while using alternative spaces and materials to explore fluxes of intimacy and perception. They’ve had the pleasure of working nationally and internationally with imPerfect Dancers Company, Andrea Peña & Artists, Inverso Productions, TWObigsteps collective, Action at a Distance, Future Leisure, David Harvey, Justine A. Chambers, Les Productions Figlio, The Public Swoon, Ne.Sans Opera and Dance and Wen Wei Dance, among others. They’ve presented work at Sawdust Collector, the Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver), Tremors Festival at Rumble Theatre, Shooting Gallery Performance Series #9, Café Concert #38, in peoples’ homes and was recently commissioned to create a new digital work for rEvolver Festival. Steph is also a project assistant and program manager at Made in BC – Dance on Tour.

Kiera Hill
Kiera is an independent dance artist who currently resides and practices her art on the unceded and ancestral territories of the: Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil- Waututh) and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations. Kiera completed her professional training at Arts Umbrella in 2012 under the direction of Artemis Gordon. Upon graduating, she apprenticed with Ballet BC for a season before joining Les Ballets Jazz de Montreal. For four years she toured extensively with BJM, performing internationally and across Canada. Kiera returned home to Vancouver to join Ballet BC as a full company member from 2017-2020. She has had the privilege of performing the works of William Forsythe, Ohad Naharin, Sharon Eyal, Johan Inger, Azure Barton, Emily Molnar and Medhi Walerski among others. Kiera is delighted and grateful to be part of this project with Inverso Productions and to be performing for a live audience again!
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