LIFT Festival uses dance to connect generations, June 3 and 4
Inverso Productions event includes performance featuring Claudia Moore, Calder White, Anne Cooper, Savannah Walling, and more at the Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre
Borrowed Time
Inverso Productions presents the LIFT Festival June 3 and 4 at the Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre
INVERSO PRODUCTIONS hosts its second annual intergenerational LIFT Festival at the Roundhouse this week, complete with performances, workshops, panels, and other events that spotlight older adults and bring them into dance collaborations with younger counterparts.
Its name comes from the idea that, as celebrated local choreographer Lesley Telford has said, “we all hold each other up.”
Conceived by Telford, the show draws on the way lived experience can enrichen dance. As the Nederlands Dans Company alumna told Stir last year during the inaugural event: “I was looking for a way to highlight how we can interact across ages through dance. I know that often dance for older adults is highlighting a specific demographic, and I think the beauty is crossing over, not only ages, but crossing over from professional to community dance.”
It culminates June 4 at 7:30 pm with Seeds of Departure, a show that features familiar names from the Vancouver dance community.
Veteran performer Claudia Moore, a former dancer with the National Ballet of Canada and Toronto Dance Theatre, performs her collaboration with Tedd Robinson, lonesome; she also debuts a new, cross-generational work in progress choreographed by Telford and performed with Calder White, set to music by John Cage and Hildur Guðnadóttir.
Elsewhere, Vancouver names Anne Cooper and Hayley Gawthorpe present an improvised duet, while Savannah Walling and Yuha Tomita perform a work in progress created by Telford and set to the music of Vega Trails.
The show also features an open intergenerational improvisation with a cast of LIFT dancers.
There's much more, from a screening of Borrowed Time to a workshop with Moore and a mask-making workshop with Raven Grenier. Find out more at the web link here . 
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