Inverso Productions presents: DUETS, an evening of dance by Lesley Telford
Featuring a New Creation by choreographer Lesley Telford, “If I were 2” (created on Ballet BC) and "Spooky Action" Film, “DUETS” explores how we connect: the relationship in its simplest form, full of complexity.
“I’ve spent decades studying duets, as a dancer and a choreographer. This has always been my favourite thing to dance and an endless discovery to choreograph. In partnering, I’m interested in the moment of listening before a movement: the slight delay, noticing weight, making a shared choice. Duets bring the body to the edge of its habits because there is always a level of unpredictability when two dancers connect with care and risk co-existing. I return to the duet because it strips everything else away: just two bodies negotiating time, weight, attention and distance.”- Lesley Telford
If I Were 2 (2017)
A collaboration with writer Barbara Adler about the Narcissus myth, exploring the subjective nature of our perception of others. Originally commissioned for Ballet BC in 2017.
Spooky Action (Film)(2021)
The film version of Inverso's celebrated project. Filmed at TRIUMF's particle accelerator, the jetty at Iona beach and in city tunnels to highlight spacial concepts of particle entanglement. Spooky Action weaves together dance, poetic storytelling and original composition to extend quantum physics to human connections.
Spooky Action is inspired by Einstein's famous phrase referring to particles that are so closely linked, they share the same existence. A collaboration with poet/performer Barbara Adler, this interdisciplinary work weaves together contemporary dance, poetic storytelling and original composition to extend the theory to human connections. By turns intricate, refined, and dryly witty, Spooky Action brings together thought-provoking dance and engaging narrative to probe the mysterious ways we act on each other’s lives.
New Creation (World Premiere)
Choreography: Lesley Telford with the artists
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