Lesley Telford wields paper houses at the Chutzpah Festival. Interview with Janet Smith / Georgia Straight

Brittle Failure (with Iratxe Ansa) hits Chutzpah fest. photo SOLEDAD SANCHEZ MERLO

It comes as little surprise that dance artist Lesley Telford is so drawn to the image of the home. When the Vancouver-born choreographer-performer brings herBrittle Failure here for the Chutzpah Festival, it will feature hundreds of small, white paper houses on-stage. For Telford, who has spent most of the past two decades pursuing her art form in places from Montreal to the Netherlands, the structures reveal a lot about what she yearns for when she’s out in the world.

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