Lesley was a care giver for her mother with Parkinsons who she accompanied to many appointments at the Movement Disorder Clinic. A life time dance artist with an international career, Lesley has been exploring the themes of care, aging, and family in her choreography and bringing these values back to the community. 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”. Lesley Telford is a choreographer, educator and the Artistic Director of Inverso Productions based in Vancouver on Coast Salish Territory.  Telford ’s 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 for these companies and others such as Bern Ballet, Ballet BC, Zfin Malta, Hubbard Street Dance Company, Ballet Vorpommern and more. Her work has been described as having “a profound way of tapping into deep recesses of our emotional and intellectual landscapes”. 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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