parler femme is a dance-based triple bill celebrating innovative and inspiring stories about women, experienced through live performance, screen and immersive technologies.
Pre-Act 1: Immersive
A maximalist dive into the minds of parler femme’s creatives, presented through live vignettes, set and sound.
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 Chinese experience.
Act II: Here Lies
The premiere of a multi-layered dance and music duet; a magic realist tale about two estranged sisters, reconnecting after the death of their Grandmother.
Act III: No Time Like The Present
A darkly comic five-dancer ballet set to a dream-pop score, exploring a landscape of female emotion, reimagining historic notions of femininity, and championing the range of human feeling in all its splendour.
parler femme premiered on the 9th November 2023 at the Stanley and Audrey Burton Theatre, Leeds.
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We sold out on the 11th November 2023 at The Playhouse, Sheffield Theatres
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We built a theatre and sold out on the 16th November 2023 at Elsecar Heritage Centre, Barnsley
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Production shots by Martin Perry
Rehearsal images by Camilla Greenwell
parler femme is produced by Tala Lee-Turton Productions, bringing together diverse collaborators from new talent in film and dance, and presenting dance across multiple disciplines. The production features official selections at international film festivals, returning ACE funded work and the premiere of Here Lies, developed as part of a Genesis funded, residency at Yorkshire Dance in September 2022.
Act I: The Subject is Speaking
Chinese Laundry – Creative producer – Tala Lee-Turton, Director – Patricia Zhou
What Are We Doing – Director, Sophie Park, Katya Bourvis
Un-spoken words of a Heartist – Director, Nadine Baboy
Act II: Here Lies
Creative producer – Tala Lee-Turton
Choreographer – Krystal Lowe
Music artist – Roxanna Albayati
Dance artist – Tala Lee-Turton
Act III: No Time Like The Present
Creative producer – Tala Lee-Turton
Choreographers – Zhongjing Fang and Katya Bourvis
Composer – Grace Stubbings
Dance artists – Winnie Dias, Sera Maehara, Lowri Shone, Patricia Langa, Tala Lee-Turton
Animation stills by Ed Swales.
You can access the programme for parler femme here
Special thanks to Arts Council England, Genesis Kickstart Fund, Sheffield City Council, Graysons Solicitors and private donors.
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