Inverso Productions' Lesley Telford draws on personal long-term care experience for new Gem-Like, at the Shadbolt May 25 to 28
Piece inspired by her mother’s journey shares a double bill with new film version of quantum-physics-inspired Spooky Action
Dancers: Stéphanie Cyr (left) and Kiera Hill in Gem-Like. Photo by David Cooper
Inverso Productions presents Gem-Like and Spooky Action at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts from May 25 to 28
IN AN ALL-TOO-TIMELY NEW WORK, Vancouver choreographer Lesley Telford expresses both the frustrations and the small “gem-like” moments that happen in the long-term care facility where her mother lives.
In Gem-Like, which sees its world premiere at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, she explores a system too many have had to navigate during these last pandemic years: isolation, erasure, and the rare, joyful moments of reconnection.
The new piece is performed by Stéphanie Cyr and Kiera Hill.
Telford brings to her work the rigour, attention to detail, and rich experience she’s had dancing for some of the top contemporary companies in the world—Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, Nacho Duato’s Compañia Nacional de Danza in Madrid, and impressive decade with Netherlands Dans Theater. She’s been honing her voice as a choreographer not only with her own Inverso, but with troupes like Ballet BC.
Gem-Like shows in a double bill with a screening of her new film version of Spooky Action, a haunting, sophisticated work that plays with Einstein’s theory of quantum entanglement as it relates to human and romantic entanglement. The piece is a collaboration with poetry by Barbara Adler and music by James Meger. It stars dancers Cyr and Eden Solomon.
Shot by David Cooper, the dance film includes With footage from the 2 km long jetty at Iona Beach and the industrial space of the particle accelerator at TRIUMF UBC. ”
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