Press/Media Archives - Tala Lee-Turton

AroundTown Magazine – September 2023: Tala’s triple bill coming to The Ironworks

Dancer shown legs only, wearing a cream skirt, standing on pointe by a cello placed on its side with the bow balanced on top.

This November, Barnsley ballerina Tala Lee-Turton is performing at Elsecar Heritage Centre in a first-of-its kind production. On Thursday 16th November, Tala will turn the vast Ironworks building at Elsecar into an immersive theatre for a live performance of her newest production, parler femme.

Exposed Magazine – September 2023: South Yorkshire ballet dancer returns to Sheffield with innovative new show

Dancer seated back to back with a musician playing the Iranian ghaychak. Dancer has arms crossed in a balletic movement, wearing a cream dress and hair in french plaits. The musician wears beige trousers and a cream lace top and has dark, long curly hair worn loose.

Following the huge success of her debut production, No Time Like The Present, Barnsley-born, Bolshoi Ballet Academy alumna Tala Lee-Turton returns to Sheffield on 11th November with parler femme – a dance-based triple bill celebrating innovative and inspiring stories about women.

parler femme I Northern Ballet

Seated dancer, wearing a cream dress and hair in french plaits, looking to the side at a cellist, with long dark curly hair, worn loose, playing soulfully. They both sit on a wooden box, back to back.

Live performance, screen and immersive technologies combine in Tala Lee-Turton’s parler femme, an unmissable celebration of innovative and inspiring stories about women.

Sheffield Theatres What’s On – parler femme

ON SALE TO MEMBERS FROM SAT 10 JUNE, 10AM ON GENERAL SALE FROM SAT 17 JUNE, 10AM parler femme is a dance-based triple bill celebrating innovative and inspiring stories about women. Experienced through live performance, screen and immersive technologies, the work is the latest from South Yorkshire’s Tala Lee-Turton Productions.

Sheffield Adventure Film Festival March 3rd – 5th 2023

Chinese Laundry produced by Tala Lee-Turton Productions features at Sheffield Adventure Film Festival (ShAFF) – March 3rd – 5th 2023.

Announcing Filmonomics 7 Cohort 2023

A headline announcing the Filmonomics 7 cohort in 2023 with 15 heads of people in a grid below the headline.

We are delighted to announce the 15 incredibly talented filmmakers recruited through an open call, from across England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, who are on the cusp of their first feature or have just made/released their debut.

Big Issue – November 2022: Point of return

A dancer in a black leotard and long dark hair in a ponytail, leans forward on point with one leg held up to her knee, one arm above her head and one held out in front.

One of only a handful of Brits to graduate from the famous Bolshoi Ballet Academy, Barnsley’s Tala Lee Turton is now on a mission to bring dance to the masses

Girls in Film – November 2022: Chinese Laundry premiere

A still from the film, Chinese Laundry - the dancer holds her hands in fists to one side of her body whilst looking through her hair cautiously. She is in a Laundry and has a row of clothes in see through plastic bags around her.

Premiere: Identity, belonging and hope; a transgenerational British-Chinese immigrant experience. Chinese Laundry is dancer Tala’s way of expressing her lived experience as a child, whose family is second generation immigrants from Hong Kong, leading lives in Barnsley, South Yorkshire with a Takeaway shop as their main family income.

SYMCA – September 2022: Talented Tala Returns to South Yorkshire

A dancer in an orange top looks down to her left. She holds the orange top away from her body.

Tala Lee-Turton, a renowned ballet dancer from Barnsley, has recently returned to the UK and is excited to launch her brand new production called No Time Like The Present.

Creatives Selected for FLEX Development Hub 2022

Introducing our FLEX 2 participants. Tala Lee-Turton, Producer.