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parler femme

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. 

Performances:

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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WATCH THIS SPACE FOR MORE PERFORMANCE NEWS

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Five dancers in shiny corsets are in a huddle looking forwards ominously.
Five dancers lean forward in a row - the second dancer is reaching out over the body of the dancer in front of her as she gazes at the camera.
A dancer is making a tunnel with her body and another is crawling through gazing at the camera. Three dancers are sat on thier knewws in the background.

Production shots by Martin Perry

Five dancers expressing emotion and surprise.
Five dancers in a line holding their hans over their ears.

Rehearsal images by Camilla Greenwell

Creative Team:

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

Five animated dancers in brightly coloured catsuits pose, facing away from the camera; the middle dancer wears a pink wig.
An animated dancer wearing a pink wig looks intently at the camera
Five animated dancers leap away from the camera.

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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A dancer holds a spray of dried flowers behind her back as she holds out her arm with a delicate bend of her wrist and gazes to the left.
A still from the film, Chinese Laundry. The dancer is in profile and is gazing to the left of the image. She is looking thoughtfully as she stands in the middle of woods in the Peak District.
Dancer with blonde bob peers through a bunch of dried flowers.
A still from the film, Chinese Laundry. The dancer is in a laundry surrounded by ironing boards and clothes and is resting her head and arms on one of the ironing boards whilst looking directly at the camera.
A still from the film, Chinese Laundry - the dancer is situated in front of a full washing machine. She has the hood of her hoody up and is looking cautiously at the camera.
Close up of seated dancer, wearing a cream dress and hair in french plaits, looking into the distance, sat next to a cellist, with long dark curly hair, worn loose, playing soulfully.
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An animated dancer wearing a pink wig looks intently at the camera
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A girl with french plaits sideways on looking slightly to the side at the camera

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