Inverso Productions was founded in 2012 in Spain by choreographer Lesley Telford, who leads the company with equal dedication to artistic innovation and community engagement. Since becoming a registered non-profit society in Vancouver, BC, on unceded Coast Salish territory in 2017, Inverso has become an established professional contemporary dance company committed to concept-driven, interdisciplinary creation and intergenerational practice.  Collaborating with visual arts, literature, theatre, film, music, and science, the company creates and shares work that situates dance within a broader cultural and social landscape. Inverso’s creations have been presented nationally and internationally at major festivals and venues across Europe and Canada.

Central to Inverso’s artistic vision is how we intentionally work across the lifespan, creating a continuum that brings emerging artists, established professionals, and older adults into meaningful creative exchange. The LIFT Festival (launched in 2025) is a cornerstone of this commitment—an intergenerational platform of performances, workshops, and panels that brings artists and community members of different ages together in shared dialogue and embodied experience. This ethos continues through the Performance Research Project, a creation-based mentorship project to support artists in their career path including workshops, mentorship, and collaborations with senior movement artists.  Our community initiatives further extend this work. We offer outreach performances in care homes, OPEN intergenerational movement classes for all, and a new class in collaboration with Dance With Parkinson’s and BC Brain Wellness at UBC.

Through this layered approach, from emerging artists to professionals to older community dancers, Inverso strengthens artistic innovation while cultivating connection, creativity, and a culture of care across generations. 

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