parler femme is a dance-based triple bill celebrating innovative and inspiring stories about women, experienced through live performance, screen and immersive technologies. Act I: The Subject is Speaking A compilation of award-winning short dance films telling the stories of different lived experiences from female filmmakers, including, Tala Lee-Turton Production Chinese Laundry about an intergenerational British …
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HERE LIES
Here Lies is an intersectional feminist interpretation of myth, told through immersive music and dance, about two estranged sisters who reconnect whilst paying respects to their grandmother in the local cemetery. They reflect on the things they have left unsaid and why they felt they could not say them. The meeting enables them to inhabit …
NO TIME LIKE THE PRESENT
“It was the most beautiful, hypnotic and amazing dance performance I’ve ever seen. I have no background in dance … however , I sensed I was witnessing something amazing” – audience feedback. No Time Like The Present is a dance and music experience presented in the beautiful green spaces of South Yorkshire. The production is one …
CHINESE LAUNDRY
“A real celebration of the nuance of identity. I loved it” – Hannah Maia, SHAFF judge. Chinese Laundry, a Tala Lee-Turton Production, directed and choreographed by Patricia Zhou, is a short dance film about a British Chinese immigrant experience of trying to fit in. The film retells a story Tala hears from her Chinese family, …
FOLLOW THE WHITE RABBIT
An audience co-created dance film, exploring the power of opinions to polarise and manipulate subjects. The film is an artistic data collection project, investigating the 21st Century rabbit hole of information overload and polemic points of view. 50 participants watched the film at five chronological stages of its development. Their views and opinions were incorporated …
