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An ambitious portfolio of live, screen and immersive dance productions that challenge social and cultural boundaries, built by a network of diverse, self-sufficient and empowered creatives.

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

parler femme – buy tickets now

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

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Tala Lee-Turton stands on one leg with the other behind her shoulder resting en point on the sides of a wall. Her hands are both positined on each wall. lHer head is bent to the sie and obscured by her bob haircut. She is in an old-fashioned lift with dark wooden panels.

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

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Four dancers in a line, walk forward holding another dancer under her arms while she walks forward. They all have thier eyes closed and rest their heads on each other. The dancers wear brightly coloured outfits that pop in orange, pink and blue. They are on a stage which is surrounded by trees.

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

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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.

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

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Three people walking in the dark on a street in a City. The person in the front is wearing a paper mache rabbit's head. One of the people behind is looking at the person in the rabbit's head, the other person looks straight ahead.

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

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

parler femme – buy tickets now

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

Read More »
Tala Lee-Turton stands on one leg with the other behind her shoulder resting en point on the sides of a wall. Her hands are both positined on each wall. lHer head is bent to the sie and obscured by her bob haircut. She is in an old-fashioned lift with dark wooden panels.

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

Read More »
Four dancers in a line, walk forward holding another dancer under her arms while she walks forward. They all have thier eyes closed and rest their heads on each other. The dancers wear brightly coloured outfits that pop in orange, pink and blue. They are on a stage which is surrounded by trees.

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

Read More »
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.

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

Read More »
Three people walking in the dark on a street in a City. The person in the front is wearing a paper mache rabbit's head. One of the people behind is looking at the person in the rabbit's head, the other person looks straight ahead.

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

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