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 Inverso Productions, TRIUMF UBC-the particle accelerator and poet/performer Barbara Adler, this new film weaves together contemporary dance, poetic storytelling and original composition to extend the theory to human connections. Entanglement is both pleasure and problem: how do we respond to connectivity that happens beyond our choosing? Spooky Action brings together science, movement and engaging narrative to probe the mysterious ways we act on each other’s lives.

Lesley Telford (Director)

Lesley Telford is a choreographer and the Artistic Director of Inverso Productions. She is grateful to live and work on the unceded and ancestral territory of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh people. Through Lesley’s choreographic work she explores the physicality and spatial structures of emotional states at the intersection of dance, the visual arts, text and film. Her work has been described as having “a profound way of tapping into very deep recesses of our emotional and intellectual landscapes”. She combines impulse-based physicality with sensitivity to the minute relationships between performers and their environment. She has choreographed works for Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, Ballet BC. She has also created works for Netherlands Dans Theater 1, Hubbard Street Dance Company 2, Compañia Nacional de Danza 2, Ballet Vorpommern, International Project for Dance in Rome- DAF, Butler Ballet, University of Utah, and Arts Umbrella Dance Company.

She founded her own company, Inverso Productions, in 2012 to experiment with other art forms and ways of creating dance. She has worked with many collaborators including scenographer Yoko Seyama, writer Barbara Adler, videographer David Cooper and composer James Meger among others. Through Inverso Productions she has produced and choreographed two full-length works: Brittle Failure, which has been a part of tours and festivals in Spain, the Netherlands and Canada and Spooky Action, which recently premiered in Canada to enthusiastic reviews. Her work has been presented in the CaDance Festival and Korzo Theatre in the Netherlands, International Festival Madrid en Danza and the Reina Sophia Museum in Spain, the Chutzpah Festival, the Banff Festival of the Arts, the Gothenburg Dance and Theatre Festival, the Schmiede Festival, EDAM Choreographic Series, the Fluid Festival in Calgary, and the Vancouver International Dance Festival.

Lesley Telford Director, Producer
Barbara Adler Writer
Stephanie Cyr Key Cast
Eden Solomon Key Cast
Andrew Mackenzie Editor
David Cooper Director of Photography