Lesley Telford is a choreographer, educator and the Artistic Director of Inverso Productions based in Vancouver on Coast Salish Territory. Her dance career was with Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, Nederlands Dans Theater 1, and Madrid's Compania Nacional de Danza and she has gone on to choreograph internationally for these companies and others such as Ballet Am Rhein, Bern Ballet, Ballet BC, Zfin Malta, Hubbard Street Dance Company, Ballet Vorpommern and more. 

Lesley was also a care giver for her mother with Parkinson's which brought her to connect with Dance With Parkinson's and explore themes of care, aging, and family in her choreography. She values intergenerational projects and highlights the beautiful life experience of older movers. She founded the LIFT Festival, celebrating sharing dance across generations with a mission of “lifting each other up”. She has a Master of Arts in Cultural Production from the University of Salzburg and the Mozarteum and has furthered her studies in the field of Gerontology at SFU.

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